Gendered Innovations in Science and Engineering

Londa Schiebinger is the John L. Hinds Professor of History of Science and the Barbara D. Finberg Director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Stanford University. Her books include The Mind Has No Sex? Women in the Origins of Modern Science (1989), Has Feminism Changed Science? (1999), and, most recently, the prize-winning Plants and Empire: Colonial Bioprospecting in the Atlantic World (2004).

"Gendered innovations stands out in providing examples from an impressive range of disciplines, including genetics, archaeology, forest ecology, geography, stem cell research, astronomy, and mechanical engineering. The volume also captures a variety of ways that gender analysis has contributed to these fields. . . Gendered Innovations provides a comprehensive account of a variety of ways in which scientific understanding has been enhanced by gender analysis. The readings advance debates about gender and science for a multidisciplinary audience of historians and science, feminist scholars, and scientists." - Kristen Intemann (ISIS) "This volume, edited by Schiebinger, highlights and analyzes changes in science and technology brought about by 'efforts to remove gender bias in these fields' .... This collection of essays and analysis is appropriate and useful for undergraduate and graduate students is science, science policy, and women's studies." - C. A. Klevickis (Choice.) "Stories on the under-representation of women in science and engineering abound in the media, as do speculations why an imbalance persists. This book moves the discussion in new directions, assessing what policies have worked to integrate women into research and what insights their participation has generated. The contributors draw examples from a wide range of fields—from archeology to astronomy, geography to genetics, stem cell research to car design—that show the fruits of success in understanding gender and point to frontiers for further change." —Angela N.H. Creager, Princeton University

• @fmct:Contents @toc4:Acknowledgmentsxxx @toc2:1Introduction: Getting More Women in to Science: Knowledge Issues1 @tocca:Londa Schiebinger @toc2:2When Gender Criticism Becomes Standard Scientific Practice: The Case of Sex Determination Genetics000 @tocca:Sarah S. Richardson @toc2:3One Thing Leads to Another: Gendering Research in Archeology000 @tocca:Margaret W. Conkey @toc2:4Sex Matters: Letting Skeletons Tell the Story000 @tocca:Lori D. Hager @toc2:5Change around the Edges: Gender Analysis, Feminist Methods, and Sciences of Terrestrial Environments @tocca:Louise Fortmann, Heidi Ballard, and Louise Sperling @toc2:6Feminist Perspectives on Geographic Information Systems: Implications for Geographic Research @tocca:Mei-Po Kwan @toc2:7Stem Cells, Women, and the New Gender and Science @tocca:Charis Thompson @toc2:8If You Meet the Expectations of Women, You Exceed the Expectations of Men: How Volvo Cars took Women Customers into Consideration and Made World Headlines with the YCC Concept Car @tocca:Tatiana Butovitsch Temm @toc2:9Are Photons Gendered? Women in Physics and Astronomy @tocca:C. Megan Urry @toc2:10"A Very Scholarly Intervention": Recruiting Women Faculty in Science and Engineering @tocca:Danielle LaVaque-Manty and Abigail Stewart @toc2:11Building Two-Way Streets to Implement Policies that Work for Gender and Science @tocca:Sue V. Rosser @toc2:12Projects of the National Academies on Women in Science and Engineering 000 @tocca:France A. Cordova @toc4:Bibliography000 Contributors000 Index000