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The issue of gender in science and technology is pursued by scholars of various disciplines and perspectives: Historians study the lives of women in the context of institutions that have…

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The issue of gender in science and technology is pursued by scholars of various disciplines and perspectives: Historians study the lives of women in the context of institutions that have for centuries occupied women in arms. Sociologists reveal women's access to scientific means of production; biologists examine how science studied women's bodies and masculinity.

Cultural Critics explore standard understandings of femininity and masculinity; philosophers and science historians analyze how gender affects the content and methods of science and technology. Now, this new four-volume collection of Routledge enables users to understand the intertwined parts of sex, science and technology puzzles: the history of women's participation in science and engineering; the structure of research institutions and the human knowledge agenda. The volumes are grouped among important representative publications that address these issues from antiquity to the present and across cultures..



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