ABSTRACT

This essential text contains contributions from a wide range of fields and provides role models for feminist scientists. Including chapters from scientists and feminist scholars, the book presents a wide range of feminist science studies scholarship-from autobiographical narratives and experimental and theoretical projects, to teaching tools and courses and community-based projects.

part |58 pages

(UN)D ISC I PLI NED Identities

chapter |7 pages

[Section Introduction]: Proud to be an Oxymoron!

From Schizophrenic to (Un)Disciplined Practice

chapter |8 pages

What Do You Do Over There, Anyway?

Tales of an Academic Dual Citizen

chapter |5 pages

Resident Alien

A Scientist in Women’s Studies

chapter |7 pages

From Biologist to Sociologist

Blurred Boundaries and Shared Practices

chapter |6 pages

Through the Lens of an Insider-Outsider

GendeVy Race, and (Self-)Representation in Science

chapter |7 pages

Oases in a Desert

Why a Hydrologist Meanders between Science and Women’s Studies

chapter |8 pages

And the Mirror Cracked!

Reflections of Natures and Cultures

chapter |8 pages

TechnoscientiFic Literacy as Civic Engagement

Realizing How Being at Liberty Comes to Matter

part |66 pages

Altered States

chapter |9 pages

[Section Introduction]: Over the Edge

Developing Feminist Frameworks in the Sciences and Women’s Studies

chapter |5 pages

When the Mirror Looks Back

Nature in the Scholarship of the Humanities

chapter |9 pages

Contesting Territories

Female-Female Aggression and the Song Sparrow

chapter |9 pages

Sexy Science

What’s Love Got to Do with It?

chapter |5 pages

Unequal Partners

Rethinking Gender Roles in Animal Behavior

chapter |5 pages

Toward a History of us All

Women Physicians and Historians of Medicine

chapter |12 pages

Just Beneath the Surface

Rereading Geology, Rescripting the Knowledge/Power Nexus

part |110 pages

Stores From the Field

chapter |7 pages

[Section Introduction]: Feminist Leadership in the Academy

Innovations in Science Education

chapter |12 pages

Reproductive and Resistant Pedagogies

The Comparative Roles of Collaborative Learning and Feminist Pedagogy in Science Education

chapter |16 pages

Difficult Crossings

Stories from Building Two-Way Streets

chapter |10 pages

The Forgotten Few

Developing Curricula on Women in the Physical Sciences and Engineering

chapter |10 pages

“What about Biology?”

Building Sciences into Introductory Women’s Studies Curricula

chapter |11 pages

Life, Sex, and Cells

chapter |12 pages

Working at the Limen

Repositioning Authority in Science and Art

chapter |10 pages

From Teaching to Learning

A Course on Women, Gender, and Science

part |92 pages

Destination

chapter |10 pages

[Section Introduction]: Fertile Futures

Grounding Feminist Science Studies Across Communities

chapter |17 pages

“Your Silence Will Not Protect You”

Feminist Science Studies, Breast Cancer, and Activism

chapter |16 pages

Taking Science to the Household

Scientific Motherhood in Women’s Lives

chapter |14 pages

After Absolute Neutrality

Expanding “Science”

chapter |16 pages

Laboratories Without Walls

The Science Shop as a Model for Feminist Community Science in Action