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- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Preface vii
- Contributors ix
- 1 Introduction: Getting More Women into Science and Engineering—Knowledge Issues 1
- 2 When Gender Criticism Becomes Standard Scientific Practice: The Case of Sex Determination Genetics 22
- 3 One Thing Leads to Another: Gendering Research in Archaeology 43
- 4 Sex Matters: Letting Skeletons Tell the Story 65
- 5 Change around the Edges: Gender Analysis, Feminist Methods, and Sciences of Terrestrial Environments 79
- 6 Feminist Perspectives on Geographic Information Systems: Implications for Geographic Research 97
- 7 Stem Cells, Women, and the New Gender and Science 109
- 8 If You Meet the Expectations of Women, You Exceed the Expectations of Men: How Volvo Designed a Car for Women Customers and Made World Headlines 131
- 9 Are Photons Gendered? Women in Physics and Astronomy 150
- 10 “A Very Scholarly Intervention”: Recruiting Women Faculty in Science and Engineering 165
- 11 Building Two-Way Streets to Implement Policies that Work for Gender and Science 182
- 12 Projects of the National Academies on Women in Science and Engineering 198
- Bibliography 213
- Index 235
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Preface vii
- Contributors ix
- 1 Introduction: Getting More Women into Science and Engineering—Knowledge Issues 1
- 2 When Gender Criticism Becomes Standard Scientific Practice: The Case of Sex Determination Genetics 22
- 3 One Thing Leads to Another: Gendering Research in Archaeology 43
- 4 Sex Matters: Letting Skeletons Tell the Story 65
- 5 Change around the Edges: Gender Analysis, Feminist Methods, and Sciences of Terrestrial Environments 79
- 6 Feminist Perspectives on Geographic Information Systems: Implications for Geographic Research 97
- 7 Stem Cells, Women, and the New Gender and Science 109
- 8 If You Meet the Expectations of Women, You Exceed the Expectations of Men: How Volvo Designed a Car for Women Customers and Made World Headlines 131
- 9 Are Photons Gendered? Women in Physics and Astronomy 150
- 10 “A Very Scholarly Intervention”: Recruiting Women Faculty in Science and Engineering 165
- 11 Building Two-Way Streets to Implement Policies that Work for Gender and Science 182
- 12 Projects of the National Academies on Women in Science and Engineering 198
- Bibliography 213
- Index 235