Feminism and Science
Chive Mynde
Introduction
This page includes information on both the Natural and Social
Sciences. The specific topics are: Science in General, Biology, Health
& Medicine, Nature & Animals, Research Methodology, and Social Life.
Bibliography
Science in General
Ambrose, Susan A., ed. Journeys of Women in Science and Engineering.
Temple Univ. Press, 1998.
Barr, Jean and Lynda Birke. Common Science? Women, Science and
Knowledge. Indiana University Press, 1998.
Benjamin, Marina, ed. A Question of Identity: Women, Science, and
Literature. Rutgers Univ. Press, 1993.
Clarke, Bruce. Dora Marsden and Early Modernism: Gender,
Individualism, Science. Univ. of Michigan Press, 1996.
Duran, Jane. Philosophies of Science: Feminist Theories. Westview
Press, 1997.
Hager, Lori, ed. Women in Human Evolution. Routledge, 1997.
Hanen, Marsha and Kai Nielsen, ed. Science, Morality and Feminist
Theory. 1987.
Haraway, Donna. Modest-Winess, Second-Millenium: Femaleman Meets
Oncomouse: Feminism and Technoscience. Routledge, 1997.
Haraway, Donna. Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World
of Moden Science. Routledge, 1989.
Haraway, Donna. Simians, Cyborgs and Women: the Reinvention of Nature.
Free Association Press, 1991.
Harding, Sandra. Is Science Multicultural? Postcolonialisms,
Feminisms, and Epistemologies. Indiana Univ. Press, 1998.
Harding, Sandra. The 'Racial' Economy of Science: Toward a Democratic
Future. Indiana University Press, 1993.
Harding, Sandra. The Science Question in Feminism. Cornell Univ.
Press, 1986.
Harding, Sandra and Jean F. O'Barr, ed. Sex and Scientific Inquiry.
Univ. of Chicago Press, 1987.
Harding, Sandra and Merrill B. Hintikka, ed. Discovering Reality:
Feminist Perspectives on Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodology, and
Philosophy of Science. D. Reidel Pub. Co., 1983.
Harvey, Joy. "Almost a Man of Genius": Clemence Royer, Feminism, and
Nineteenth-Century Science. Rutgers Univ. Press, 1997.
Jacobus, Mary, Evelyn Fox Keller and Sally Shuttleworth, ed. Body /
Politics: Women and the Discourses of Science. 1990.
Keller, Evelyn Fox. A Feeling for the Organism: The Life and Work of
Barbara McClintock. W.H. Freeman, 1983.
Keller, Evelyn Fox. Reflection on Gender and Science. Yale University
Press, 1985.
Keller, Evelyn Fox and Helen E. Longino, ed. Feminism and Science.
Oxford Univ. Press, 1996.
Kohlstedt, Sally Gregory and Helen E. Longino, ed. Women, Gender, and
Science: New Directions. Univ. Chicago Press, 1998.
Longino, Helen E. Can There Be a Feminist Science? 1986.
Longino, Helen E. Science as Social Knowledge: Values and Objectivity
in Scientific Inquiry. Princeton Univ. Press, 1990.
Lykke, Nina and Rosi Braidotti, ed. Between Monsters, Goddesses and
Cyborgs: Feminist Confrontations with Science, Medicine and
Cyberspace. 1996.
Nelson, Lynn Hankinson and Jack Nelson, ed. Feminism, Science, and the
Philosophy of Science. Kluwer Academic Pub., 1996.
Newman, Louise Michele, ed. Men's Ideas/Women's Realities: Popular
Science, 1870-1915. Elsevier Science Ltd., 1985.
Pattatucci, Angela M., ed. Women in Science: Meeting Challenges and
Transcending Boundaries. Sage, 1998.
Paxton, Nancy L. George Eliot and Herbert Spencer: Feminism,
Evolutionism, and the Reconstruction of Gender. princeton Univ. Press,
1991.
Rose, Hilary. Love, Power and Knowledge: Towards a Feminist
Transformation of the Sciences. Indiana Univ. Press, 1994.
Rosser, Sue, ed. Teaching the Majority: Breaking the Gender Barrier in
Science, Mathematics and Engineering. Teachers College Press, 1995.
Schiebinger, Londa. The Mind Has No Sex? Women in the Origins of
Modern Science. Harvard University Press, 1989.
Schiebinger, Londa. Nature's Body: Sexual Politics and the Making of
Modern Science. Beacon Press, 1993.
Tuana, Nancy, ed. Feminism and Science. Indiana Univ. Press, 1989.
Tuana, Nancy. The Less Noble Sex: Scientific, Religious, and
Philosophical Conceptions of Woman's Nature. Indiana Univ. Press,
1993.
Biology
Adams, Alice E. Reproducing the Womb: Images of Childbirth in Science,
Feminist Theory, and Literature. Cornell Univ. Press, 1994.
Birke, Lynda. Women, Feminism and Biology: The Feminist Challenge.
Methuen, 1986.
Birke, Lynda and Ruth Hubbard. Reinventing Biology: Respect for Life
nad the Creation of Knowledge. Indiana University Press, 1995.
Bleier, Ruth. Science and Gender: A Critique of Biology and Its
Theories on Women. Elsevier Science Ltd., 1984.
Fausto-Sterling, Anne. Myths of Gender. Basic Books, 1992.
Hager, Lori D., ed. Women in Human Evolution. Routledge, 1997.
Hubbard, Ruth. The Politics of Women's Biology. Rutgers University
Press, 1990.
Keller, Evelyn Fox. Refiguring Life: Metaphors of Twentieth Century
Biology (The Welleck Lectures). Columbia University Press, 1995.
Keller, Evelyn Fox. Secrets of Life, Secrets of Death. Routledge,
1992.
Keller, Evelyn Fox and Elizabeth Lloyd, ed. Keywords in Evolutionary
Discourse. Harvard University Press, 1992.
Rosser, Sue. Biology and Feminism: A Dynamic Interaction. Twayne,
1992.
Spanier, Bonnie B. Im/partial Science: Gender Ideology in Molecular
Biology. Indiana Univ. Press, 1995.
Tobach, Ethel and Betty Rosoff, ed. Challenging Racism and Sexism:
Alternatives to Genetic Explanations. Feminist Press, 1994.
van den Wijngaard, Marianne. Reinventing the Sexes: The Biomedical
Construction of Femininity and Masculinity. Indiana Univ. Press, 1997.
Wilson, Elizabeth A. Neural Geographies: Feminism and the
Microstructure of Cognition. Routledge, 1998.
Health & Medicine
For information on Medical Ethics, click here.
Clarke, Adele E. and Virginia Olesen, ed. Revisioning Women, Health
and Healing: Feminist, Cultural and Technoscience Perspectives.
Routledge, 1998.
Delamont, Sara and Lorna Duffin, ed. The Nineteenth-Century Woman: Her
Cultural and Physical World. 1978.
Koblinsky, Marge, Judith Timyan, and Jill Gay, ed. The Health of
Women: A Global Perspective. 1992.
Rosser, Sue V., ed. Feminism within the Science and Health Care
Professions: Overcoming Resistance. 1988.
Rosser, Sue V. Teaching Science and Health from a Feminist
Perspective: A Practical Guide. 1986.
Rowold, Katharina, ed. Gender and Science: Late Nineteenth-Century
Debates on the Female Mind and Body. Theommes Press, 1996.
Stacey, Jackie. Teratologies: A Cultural Study of Cancer. Routledge,
1997.
Walker, Anne E. The Menstrual Cycle. Routledge, 1997.
Wilkinson, Sue and Celia Kitzinger, ed. Women and Health: Feminist
Perspectives. Taylor and Francis, 1994.
Nature & Animals
Birke, Lynda. Feminism, Animals, and Science: The Naming of the Shrew.
Open Univ. Press, 1994.
Devine, Maureen. Woman and Nature: Literary Reconceptualizations.
Scarecrow Press, 1992.
Merchant, Carolyn. The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology and the
Scientific Revolution. Harper San Francisco, 1990.
Midgley, Mary. Animals and Why They Matter. University of Georgia
Press, 1998.
Plumwood, Val. Feminism and the Mastery of Nature. Routledge, 1993.
[Note: Also see Environment.]
Research Methodology
[Note: Some of these titles were contributed by Stesha Day.]
Abbott, Pamela and Claire Wallace. Introduction to Sociology: Feminist
Perspectives. Routledge, 1996.
Eichler, M. and Lapointe, J. On the Treatment of the Sexes in
Research. 1985.
Harding, Sandra, ed. Feminism and Methodology: Social Science Issues.
Indiana Univ. Press, 1987.
Herrmann, Anne C. and Abigail J. Stewart, ed. Theorizing Feminism:
Parallel Trends in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Westview Press,
1994.
Keller, Evelyn Fox and Wallerstein, et. al. Open the Social Sciences:
Report of the Gulbenkian Commission on the Restructuring of the Social
Sciences. Stanford University Press, 1996.
Keller, Evelyn Fox. Reflection on Gender and Science. Yale University
Press, 1985.
Maynard, Mary and June Purvis, ed. Researching Women's Lives from a
Feminist Perspective. Taylor and Francis, 1994.
Myers, Kristen A., Cynthia D. Anderson, and Barbara J. Risman, ed.
Feminist Foundations: Toward Transforming Sociology. Sage, 1998.
Nebraska Sociological Feminist Collective. A Feminist Ethic for Social
Science Research. Edwin Mellen Press, 1988.
Nielsen, Joyce McCarl, ed. Feminist Research Methods: Exemplary
Readings in the Social Sciences. 1990.
Reinharz, Shulamit. Feminist Methods in Social Research. Oxford Univ.
Press, 1992.
Shrader-Frechette, Kristin. Ethics of Scientific Research. Rowmand and
Littlefield, 1994.
Stanley, Liz, ed. Feminist Praxis: Research, Theory, and Epistemology
in Feminist Sociology. 1990.
Zalk, Sue Rosenberg and Janice Gordon-Kelter, ed. Revolutions in
Knowledge: Feminism in the Social Sciences. 1992.
Social Life
Millman, Marcia and Rosabeth Moss Kanter. Another Voice: Feminist
Perspectives on Social Life and Social Science. 1975.
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