WGS.693
Gender, Race, and the Complexities of Science and Technology: A Problem-Based Learning Experiment
Spring 2009
Topics
- Case 3: presentation of guides on genomics
- Presentation of drafts of grant proposals, teaching cases, syllabi, curriculum units, etc. The class will act as a jury to review and ask questions.
- Continuation of presentation of drafts of grant proposals, teaching cases, syllabi, curriculum units, etc. The class will act as a jury to review and ask questions.
Readings
- Clarke, Adele E. Situational Analysis: Grounded Theory After the Postmodern Turn . Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc., 2005. ISBN: 9780761930563.
- Creager, Angela N. H., Elizabeth Lunbeck, and Londa Schiebinger. Feminism in Twentieth-Century Science, Technology, and Medicine . Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780226120249.
- Law, John and Annemarie Mol. Complexities: Social Studies of Knowledge Practices . Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. ISBN: 9780822328469.
- McNeil, Maureen. Feminist Cultural Studies of Science and Technology . London: Routledge, 2007. ISBN: 9780415445375.
- Butler, Octavia E. Parable of the Sower . New York, NY: Grand Central Publishing, 2000. ISBN: 9780446675505.
- Centro de Estudos Sociais. Identifying Trends in European Medical Space: Contribution of European Social and Human Sciences . Coimbra, Portugal: Centro de Estudos Sociais, 2005.
- Cohn, Carol. “Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals.” Signs 12, no. 4 (1987): 687-718.
- Harvey, D. “Militant Particularism and Global Ambition: The Conceptual Politics of Place, Space, and Environment in the Work of Raymond Williams.” Social Text 42 (2005): 69-98.
- Paper Tiger TV. “Donna Haraway Reads National Geographic on Primates.” New York: Paper Tiger TV, 1989.
- Abir-Am, Pnina G. “Women in Modern Scientific Research: A Historical View.” Unesco World Science Report, Beijing, 1996.
- Cartwright, Lisa. “Community and the Public Body in Breast Cancer Media Activism. In Wild Science: Reading Feminism, Medicine, and the Media . Edited by Marchessault. London, UK: Routledge, 2000. ISBN: 9780415205316.
- Clarke, Adele. “A Social Worlds Research Adventure: The Case of Reproductive Science.” In Grounded Theory in Practice . Edited by Anselm Strauss and Juliet Corbin. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1997, pp. 63-94. ISBN: 9780761907480.
- Dugdale, Ann. “Keller’s Degendered Science: Notes and Discussion.” Thesis Eleven 21 (1988): 117-128.
- Fausto-Sterling, Anne. “Society Writes Biology/Biology Constructs Gender.” Daedalus 116, no. 4 (1987): 61-76.
- ———. “Life in the XY Corral.” Women’s Studies International Forum 12, no. 3 (1989): 319-331.
- ———. Sexing the Body: Gender, Politics and the Construction of Sexuality . New York, NY: Basic Books, 2000. ISBN: 9780465077144.
- Fuller, Steve. Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Times . Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780226268965.
- Fullwiley, Duana. “Race and Genetics: Attempts to Define the Relationship.” Biosocieties 2, no. 2 (2007): 221-237.
- Haraway, Donna J. “Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s.” Socialist Review , 80 (1985): 65-107.
- ———. Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Sciences . New York, NY: Routledge, 1990. ISBN: 9780415902946.
- ———. “The Promises of Monsters: A Regenerative Politics for Inappropriate/d Others.” Cultural Studies . Edited by Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson and Paula A. Treichler. New York, NY: Routledge, 1991, pp. 295-337. ISBN: 9780415903455.
- ———. “Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective.” Feminist Studies 14, no. 3 (1988): 575-599.
- Harding, Sandra. Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? Thinking From Women’s Lives . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1991. ISBN: 9780801497469.
- Jordanova, Ludmilla J. “Naturalizing the Family: Literature and the Bio-Medical Sciences in the Late Eighteenth Century.” Languages of Nature: Critical Essays on Science and Literature . London, UK: Free Association Books, 1986, pp. 86-116. ISBN: 9780813511948.
- Keller, Evelyn Fox. “Feminist Perspectives on Science Studies.” Science, Technology, & Human Value 13 (1988): 235-249.
- ———. “Just What is So Difficult About the Concept of Gender as a Social Category?” Social Studies of Science 19 (1989): 721-724.
- ———. " Making a Difference: Feminist Movement and Feminist Critiques of Science.” In Feminism in Twentieth-Century Science, Technology, and Medicine . Edited by Angela N. H. Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck, and Londa Schiebinger. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2001, pp. 98-109. ISBN: 9780226120249.
- Laslett, Barbara, Sally Gregory Kohlstedt, Helen Longino, and Evelynn Hammonds. Gender and Scientific Authority . Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press Journals, 1996. ISBN: 9780226469174.
- Love, Rosaleen. The Total Devotion Machine and Other Stories . London, UK: The Women’s Press, 1991. ISBN: 9780704341883.
- Marchessault, J., and K. Sawchuk. Wild Science: Reading Feminism, Medicine, and the Media . London, UK: Routledge, 2000. ISBN: 9780415204316.
- Montoya, Michael J. “Bioethnic Conscription: Genes, Race and Mexicana/o Ethnicity in Diabetes Research.” Cultural Anthropology 22, no. 1 (2007): 94-128.
- Rapp, Rayna. “Risky Business: Genetic Counseling in a Shifting World.” In Articulating Hidden Histories . Edited by Rayna Rapp and Jane Schneider. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1995, pp. 175-189. ISBN: 9780520085824.
- Schiebinger, Londa. Nature’s Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science . New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780813535319.
- ———. Has Feminism Changed Science . Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780674005440.
- Traweek, Sharon. “Bodies of Evidence: Law and Order, Sexy Machines, and the Erotics of Fieldwork Among Physicists. In Choreographing History . Edited by Susan Leigh Foster. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780253209351.
- ———. “Worldly Diffractions: Feminist and Cultural Studies of Science, Technology, and Medicine.” (Presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Los Angeles, August 1994).
- ———. “When Eliza Doolittle Studies ’enry ‘iggins.” In Technoscience and Cyberculture . Edited by Stanley Aronowitz, Barbara Martinsonns and Michael Menser. New York, NY: Routledge, 1995. 37-55. ISBN: 9780415911764.
- Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt. “Environmentalism: Transitions as Translations. In Transitions, Environments, Translations: The Meanings of Feminism in Contemporary Politics . Edited by Joan W. Scott. New York, NY: Routledge, 1997, pp. 253-272. ISBN: 9780415915403.
- Wylie, A., and Okruhlik. “Philosophical Feminism: A Bibliographic Guide to Critiques of Science.” Resources for Feminist Research 19, no. 2 (1990): 2-36.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- MIT OCW readings ↗
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