Women, Science, and Technology

by Mary Wyer (Editor), Donna Giesman

Women, Science, and Technology is an ideal reader for courses in feminist science studies, science studies more generally, women’s studies, and studies in gender and education. This second edition fully updates its predecessor, dropping ten readings and replacing them with new ones Section introductions have also been fully updated to cover the latest controversies, such as Harvard president Lawrence Summers’ widely debated discussion about women and science and the current debates surrounding reports on the low numbers of female engineers.

Genres: Science, Nonfiction, Feminism, Gender

408 pages, Paperback

First published December 28, 2000

Reviews

[DDog · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was assigned this text to read for a Gender and Women's Studies course at school. It has a wide range of previously published articles about feminist science studies organized around several broad topics, synthesized in section introductions by the editors.

[Erica · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great edited multidisciplinary volume on women in science and women studied by science. There's some variation in the professionalism of various authors' tone in their essays, but there's a lot of great fodder for all kinds of projects in feminist science studies here.

[Trish · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lucy, I giggled when you sent this to me, but I've run out of books at site and started reading it. It's AMAZING. It's refreshing to read testimonials from women scientists who've experienced problems similar to mine, it makes me feel like like the "odd man out." I read it through, cover to cover.