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Simians, Cyborgs, and Women (91 Edition) by Donna J. Haraway Publisher Comments The idea that nature is constructed, not discovered — that truth is made, not found — is the keynote of recent scholarship in the history of science. Tracing the gendered roots of science in culture, Donna Haraway's writings about scientific... (read more) List Price $44.95 Your price: $22.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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Unlocking the Clubhouse by Jane Margolis Publisher Comments Winner of the 2002 Frandson Award for Literature in the Field of Continuing Higher Education The information technology revolution is transforming almost every aspect of society, but girls and women are largely out of the loop. Although women surf the... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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Technology and Women's Voices by Cheris Kramarae Publisher Comments Avoiding jargon and using well-chosen illustrations, "Technology and Women's Voices assesses technological changes in terms of their impact on women's social lives.... (read more) List Price $47.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Has Feminism Changed Science? by Londa Schiebinger Publisher Comments biology. She also shows that feminist scientists have developed new theories, asked new questions, and opened new fields in many of these areas.... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Who's Afraid of Marie Curie? The Challenges Facing Women in Science and Technology by Linley Erin Hall Publisher Comments In 2005, Larry Summers, former president of Harvard University, sparked an outcry when her suggested that women might not be as innately gifted in science and math as men. Since then, the news media have attacked this issue over and over, but with no... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Young Women of Achievement: A Resource for Girls in Science, Math, and Technology by Frances A Karnes Publisher Comments Are you planning a career in the sciences, math, or technology? If you're a girl, you probably should be. It is estimated that by the year 2010 the need for qualified personnel in science and technology careers will increase dramatically. Yet right now... (read more) List Price $21.98 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Natures Body Gender in the Making of Mak by Londa Schiebinger Publisher Comments Gender in the Making of Modern Science Winner of the 1994 Society for Social Studies of Science Ludwik Fleck Prize "Schiebinger's incisive book draws timely attention to the critical roles of language, metaphor, and ideology in the development of science.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Inventing Women: Science, Technology and Gender by Gill Kirkup Publisher Comments Inventing Women explores important and controversial debates about the gendering of science and technology and their relationship to women. This book discusses how such gendering occurs, the scientific basis for claims of sex difference, the... (read more) List Price $42.25 Your price: $1.75 Used - Trade Paper
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Feminine Ingenuity: Women and Invention in America by Anne L. MacDonald Publisher Comments "Written with clarity and a lively eye both for detail and for the progress of feminism in the United States." SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE In this fascinating study of American women inventors, historian Anne Macdonald shows how creative, resourceful, and... (read more) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Technology Assessment: A Feminist Perspective by Janine Marie Morgall Publisher Comments How well does technology assessment (TA) relate to women's lives? If women are underrepresented in the long-term research and development process that leads to scientific advancements, how can TA understand technology aimed at women? It can't, claims the... (read more) List Price $31.95 Your price: $29.55 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?: Thinking from Women's Lives by Sandra Harding Publisher Comments With a book that is guaranteed to upset familiar assumptions about or ways of knowing, Sandra Harding again steps into the center of a thorn debate--a debate about the nature of the scientific enterprise and of human knowledge itself. Vigorously and... (read more) List Price $29.50 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Distinguished Women Economists by James Cicarelli Publisher Comments Prsents alphabetically arranged entries on 51 historical and contemporary women economists, with information on their contributions and a bibliography of works by and about the person discussed.... (read more) List Price $76.95 Your price: $68.29 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Feminism and Science by Nancy Tuana Publisher Comments ... thoughtful critiques of the myriad issues between women and science. --Belles Lettres Outstanding collection of essays that raise the fundamental questions of gender in what we have been taught are objective sciences. --WATERwheel ... all of the... (read more) List Price $38.50 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Feminism, Science, and the Philosophy of Science by Lynn Hankinson Nelson Publisher Comments Feminism, Science, and the Philosophy of Science brings together original essays by both feminist and mainstream philosophers of science that examine issues at the intersections of feminism, science, and the philosophy of science. Contributors explore... (read more) List Price $149.00 Your price: $143.41 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Women Scientists in America: Before Affirmative Action, 1940-1972 by Margaret W Rossiter Publisher Comments Margaret Rossiter's widely hailed Women Scientists in America: Struggles and Strategies to 1940 marked the beginning of a pioneering effort to interpret the history of American women scientists. That effort continues in this provocative sequel that... (read more) List Price $52.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing by Jane Margolis Publisher Comments Understanding and overcoming the gender gap in computer science education.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $17.53 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Gendered Atom: Reflections on the Sexual Psychology of Science by Theodore Roszak Publisher Comments Arguing for a gender-free approach to science, the author identifies a dangerous male bias in the current practice of scientific inquiry--even in the hardest of sciences, physics--and reveals how this prejudice is affected by our relationship to the... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $19.48 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Feminism & Science by Nancy Tuana Publisher Comments "... thoughtful critiques of the myriad issues between women and science." -- Belles Lettres "Outstanding collection of essays that raise the fundamental questions of gender in what we have been taught are objective sciences." -- WATERwheel "... all of... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $21.26 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Figuring It Out: Science, Gender, and Visual Culture (Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture) by Ann Shteir Publisher Comments In light of recent debates about the culture of contemporary science and the place of women in scientific fields, Figuring It Out: Science, Gender, and Visual Culture offers a timely consideration of the role of gender in the imagery of modern Western... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $23.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Feminism, Science & the Philosophy of Science by Ly Hankinson Nelson Publisher Comments Feminism, Science, and the Philosophy of Science brings together original essays by both feminist and mainstream philosophers of science that examine issues at the intersections of feminism, science, and the philosophy of science. Contributors explore... (read more) List Price $210.25 Your price: $47.50 Used - Hardcover
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