Gender in Science and Technology: Interdisciplinary Approaches

✍ Scribed by Waltraud Ernst (editor); Ilona Horwath (editor); Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2016: Backlist Collection (editor)

• Publisher: transcript Verlag
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 242
• Edition: 1. Aufl.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

What role does gender play in scientific research and the development of technologies? This book provides methodological expertise, research experiences and empirical findings in the dynamic field of Science and Technology Studies. The authors, coming from computer science, social sciences, or cultural studies of science, discuss how to ask questions about gender and give examples for the application in interdisciplinary research, development and teaching. Topics range from the design of information and communication technologies, epistemologies of biology and chemistry to teaching mathematics and professional processes in engineering. Contributions by Anne Balsamo, Wendy Faulkner, Rebecca Jordan-Young, Barbara Orland, Els Rommes, and others.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Introduction
A. Gender in the Design Processes of New Technologies
Gendering the Technological Imagination
Feminist Interventions in the Design Process
Searching for Methodology
Masks between the Visible and the Invisible
B. Gender in Epistemological Foundations of Science and Technology
Homunculus in the Hormones?
Motherhood and Scientific Innovation
Diffraction Patterns?
Gender Research as Knowledge Resource in Technology and Engineering
C. Reflecting Un/equal Conditions for Participation
Can Women Engineers be ‘Real Engineers’ and ‘Real Women’?
Similar But Different?
Gender Competence in Mathematics Teacher Education
Contributors