Gender and Scientific Authority - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0226469174 ISBN 13 : 9780226469171

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1996

Synopsis

This volume of recent Signs articles offers some of the most significant contributions to the debates on history and theory. Illustrating the uses of theories in recent feminist historical research and the often contentious arguments that surround them, the articles speak to a number of discussions, including the theoretical tradition of political economy, the importance of class relations for understanding historical events and social relationships, and the expansion of concepts from political economy to include race. Included as well are the workings of gender signification in terms of the body, moving it from its traditionally lesser position in the hierarchical Enlightenment mind/body split. A further group of articles concerns the discursive character of power relations and the dialogic quality of language. The volume will be extremely useful for feminist historians in a variety of disciplines as well as women's studies students interested in issues of interdisciplinarity.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Barbara Laslett is professor of sociology at the University of Minnestoa and former editor of Signs. Sally Gregory Kohlstedt is professor of the history of science at the University of Minnesota. Helen Longino teaches women's studies, philosophy, and science studies at the University of Minnesota. Evelynn M. Hammonds is assistant professor of the history of science in the Program in Science, Technology and Society at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Sally Gregory Kohlstedt directs the Program in History of Science and Technology at the University of Minnesota. Her teaching and research focus primarily on the history of science in American culture, with particular attention to museums, public education, and women and gender issues in science. In 2009 she edited, with Maria Rentetzi, Gender and Networking in Twentieth-Century Physical Sciences, as special issue of Centaurus. Current projects involve analysis of the use of texts in the object-rich subject of nature study, an account of the Smithsonian Institution, national identity, and the American West in the late nineteenth century, and an Isis reader.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0226469174
• ISBN 13: 9780226469171
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 450
• Éditeur: Laslett Barbara, Kohlstedt Sally Gregory, Longino Helen, Hammonds Evelynn
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible