
1.
Introduction. Science as a body of knowledge and as a social system
Fri., Sept. 11 |
Methods, Goals,
Values, Norms. Science vs. feminism.
Ways of studying
women/gender in science and technology. |
Rec. Londa Schiebinger,
"The History and Philosophy of Women in Science: A Review Essay," Signs,
Winter 1987 |
Gender
and Science
2.
Women and Science: History, 1600-1800
Mon., Sept. 14 |
Schiebinger, The
Mind Has No Sex?, 1-118
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"Introduction"
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"Institutional Landscapes"
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"Noble Networks"
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"Scientific Women in
the Craft Tradition"
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"Women's Traditions"
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Wed., Sept. 16 |
Schiebinger, The
Mind Has No Sex?, 119-277
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"Battles over Scholarly
Style"
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"Competing Cosmologies:
Locating Sex and Gender in the Natural Order"
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"The Triumph of Complementarity"
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"The Public Route Barred"
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"The Exclusion of Women
and the Structure of Knowledge"
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3.
Science Constructs the Female
Mon., Sept. 21 |
19th Century Science |
Russett, Sexual
Science, 1-103
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"How to Tell the Girls
from the Boys"
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"Up and Down the Phyletic
Ladder"
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"Hairy Men and Beautiful
Women"
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Wed., Sept. 23 |
19th Century Science |
Russett, Sexual
Science, 104-206
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"The Machinery of the
Body"
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"The Physiological Division
of Labor"
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"The Victorian Paradigm
Ends"
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"Women and the Cosmic
Nightmare"
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4.
Gender in Science
Mon., Sept. 28 |
Sociobiology - How
Far Genetic Determinism? |
Bleier, Science
and Gender, 1-114
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"Introduction"
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"Sociobiology, Biological
Determinism, and Human Behavior"
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"The Brain and Human
'Nature'"
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"Hormones, the Brain,
and Sex Differences"
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Wed., Sept. 30 |
Anthropological
Myths: Man the Hunter, Farmer, Faber
Objectivity - What
could be more true than science? |
Bleier, Science
and Gender, 115-161
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"Theories of Human Origins
and Cultural Evolution: Man the Hunter"
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"The Subordination of
women: A Problematic Universal"
Packet: "New Women of
the Ice Age"
Bleier, Science
and Gender, 193-207
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"Patriarchal Science,
Feminist Visions"
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5.
Feminism Confronts Science.
Mon., Oct. 5 |
Harding, The
Science Question in Feminism, 15-135
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"From the Woman Question
in Science to the Science Question in Feminism"
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"Gender and Science:
Two Problematic Concepts"
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"The Social Structure
of Science: Complaints and Disorders"
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"Androcentrism in Biology
and Social Science"
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"Natural Resources:
Gaining Moral Approval for Scientific Genders and Genderized Sciences"
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Wed., Oct. 7 |
Harding, The
Science Question in Feminism, 136-196; 243-251
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"From Feminist Empiricism
to Feminist Standpoint Epistemologies"
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"Other 'Others' and
Fractured Identities: Issues for Epistemologists"
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"Valuable Tensions and
a New 'Unity of Science'"
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Women
and Science
6.
Women in Science: Historical and Contemporary Individuals 1800-1996
Mon., Oct. 12 |
Packet:
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Rossiter, "Women's Work"
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Mitchell, "Henrietta
Leavitt"
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Patterson, "Mary Somerville"
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Brush, "Drudges or Discoverers?"
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Et al : Contemporary
Exemplars - biosketches
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7.
Women and Men in Science: Sociological Patterns
Wed., Oct. 14 |
Packet:
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Astin, "Citation Classics,
. . "
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Cole/Zuckerman,"Marriage
and Motherhood"
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Bielby, "Sex Differences
in Careers"
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Fox, "Gender and . .
Productivity. ."
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Keller, "The Wo/Man
Scientist. . "
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Cole/Fiorentine, "Discrimination:
Confusing. . "
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FALL READING
PERIOD
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Wed., Oct. 21 |
FIRST PAPER DUE
Open Class: Discussion
of Papers and topics suggested by them |
Mon., Oct. 26 |
Sonnert, Who
Succeeds in Science?, 1-137
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"Science Careers for
Women and Men"
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"Reaching the Top of
Academe: Ten Who Succeeded"
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"Taking a Different
Road"
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Wed., Oct. 28 |
Sonnert, Who
Succeeds in Science?, 138-196
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"Pieces of the Puzzle:
Toward a Bigger Picture"
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"Mapping Scientists'
Careers"
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"What Can be Done?
Advice for Novices and Policy Makers"
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8.
Educational Reforms?
Mon., Nov. 2 |
Packet:
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Rosser, "Reaching the
Majority"
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Campbell/C-Wright, "Toward
a Feminist Algebra"
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Sanders, "Girls and
Technology: Villain Wanted"
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Barad, "Feminist . .
Quantum Physics"
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Gross/Levitt, "Auspicating
Gender" [A Critique]
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Wed., Nov. 4 |
Packet: [Sex
Differences in Mathematics]
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Benbow, "Sex Differences
in Mathematical. .Ability"
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Et al, Further Commentary
on Benbow
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Selkow, "Male-Female
Differences in Math Ability"
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9.
Women in Science: Professors at Williams
Mon., Nov. 9 |
Guest Professors |
Wed., Nov. 11 |
Guest Professors |
Gender
and Technology
10.
Feminism and Technology
Mon., Nov. 16 |
Wajcman, Feminism
Confronts Technology, 1-80
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"Feminist Critiques
of Science and Technology"
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"The Technology of Production:
Making a Job of Gender"
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"Reproductive Technology:
Delivered into Men's Hands"
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Wed., Nov. 18 |
SECOND PAPER DUE
Wajcman, Feminism
Confronts Technology, 81-161
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"Domestic Technology:
Labour-Saving or Enslaving"
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"The Built Environment:
Women's Place, Gendered Space"
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"Technology as a Masculine
Culture"
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11.
Engendering Technology - An Exemplar
Mon., Nov. 23 |
Cockburn and Ormrod,
Gender
and Technology in the Making, 1-97
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"Achieving a New Technology"
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"Gender in the Microwave-World"
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"The Engineer and the
Home Economist"
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Wed., Nov. 25 |
Cockburn and Ormrod,
Gender
and Technology in the Making, 98-176
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"White Goods, Brown
Goods"
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"Cooking and Zapping"
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"Gender: Making and
Remaking"
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Women
and Technology
12.
Women and the Culture of Engineering
Mon., Nov. 30 |
McIlwee and Robinson,
Women
in Engineering, 1-108
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"Women in Engineering:
A Promise Unfulfilled?"
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"Women's Work and Engineering:
Theoretical Issues"
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"Paths to Engineering"
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"College Experiences"
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"Encountering the Engineering
Workplace"
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Wed., Dec. 2 |
McIlwee and Robinson,
Women
in Engineering, 109-191
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"The Culture of Engineering
in the Workplace"
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"The Family and the
Engineering Career"
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"Conclusion"
[Fri., Dec. 4 Possible
date for review of course exercise.] |
13.Women
and Household Technology
Mon., Dec. 7 |
Housework and Technology
to the 20th century; Alternative Technologies. |
Cowan, More Work
for Mother, 3-150
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"An Introduction: Housework
and Its Tools"
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"Housewifery: Household
Work and Household Tools under Pre-Industrial Conditions"
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"The Invention of Housework:
The Early Stages of Industrialization"
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"Twentieth-Century Changes
in Household Technology"
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"The Roads not Taken:
Alternative Social and Technical Approaches to Housework"
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Wed, Dec. 9 |
Domestic Technology
and Household Work 1900-Post World War II |
Cowan, More Work
for Mother, 151-219
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"Household Technology
and Household Work between 1900 and 1940"
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"The Postwar Years"
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"Postscript: Less Work
for Mother"
Conclusion. SCS. |