Syllabus: Fall Term 2001

(If you want to go straight to a particular class, click on the date below.)

September
11
13
18 20 25
27
October
2
4
9
11
16 18

23

25
30
November
1
6
8
13
15 20 22 27
29
December
4
6 11 13 18
20

EFK = Evelyn Fox Keller, A Feeling for the Organism (1983)

L&B/Gender = Muriel Lederman and Ingrid Bartcsh, eds. The Gender and Science Reader (Routledge, 2001)

Wyer et. al/Feminism = Mary Wyer, Mary Barbercheck, Donna Giesman, Hatice Örün Öztürk, and Marta Wayne, eds. Women, Science, and Technology: A Reader in Feminist Science Studies (Routledge, 2001)

September 11th

Introduction-What is 'gender'? What is 'science'?

View FILM: Gender: The Enduring Paradox (1991, Smithsonian World)
L&B/Gender, p. 111-113: National Academy of Sciences Statement "Methods and Values in Science"

September 13th

Women Scientists' Stories

L&B/Gender, p. 49-58
Ruth Hubbard, "Science and Science Criticism"
Bonnie Spanier , "How I Came to This Study"

Wyer et. al/Feminism, p. 1-25 and p. 36-41
Evelyn Fox Keller, "The Anomaly of a Woman in Physics"
Aimee Sands, "Never Meant to Survive, A Black Woman's Journey"
Banu Subramaniam, "Snow White and the Seven Detergents"

September 18th

Women, Gender, and the Birth of Early Modern Science
**Computer Assignment One due**

**Meet in SLC Library electronic classroom (downstairs) for Web Board, conference research library tutorial, and discussion of computer assignment**


September 20th

L&B/Gender, p. 68-110
Carolyn Merchant, "Dominion Over Nature"
Susan Bordo, "Selections from 'The Flight to Objectivity'"
Evelyn Fox Keller, "Secrets of God, Nature, and Life"
Plus
(HANDOUT) Mary Terrall, "Gendered Spaces, Gendered Audiences: Inside and Outside the Paris Academy of Sciences," Configurations 2 (1995) : 207-232. 2)

September 25th

19th and Early 20th Century Science: Divisions of Labor - Sex, Race, Class

(HANDOUT) Ann B. Shteir, "Gender and 'Modern' Botany in Victorian England," Osiris 12 (1997): 29-83
(HANDOUT) Naomi Oreskes, "Objectivity or Heroism? On the Invisibility of Women in Science," Osiris 11 (1996): 87-113

September 27th

**FIRST PAPER DUE**
View FILM: Double Helix (BBC, 1987)

October 2nd

Constructing Gender, Constructing Science: How Ideas about Men and Women Shape Science, Technology, and Medicine

SCIENCE EDUCATION
L&B/Gender - p. 373-382
Liz Whitelegg, "Girls in Science Education: Of Rice and Fruit Trees"

Wyer et. al/Feminism - p. 88-98 and 117-131
Janice Trecker, "Sex, Science, and Education"
Mary Barbercheck, "Mixed Messages: Men and Women in Advertisements in Science"

October 4th

**Computer Assignment Two due**
SEXUALITY
L&B/Gender - p. 343-366
Anne Fausto-Sterling, "Gender, Race, and Nation: The Comparative Anatomy of Hottentot Women…"

October 9th

**Reminder - Begin Reading EFK on McClintock (entire) -- to discuss after study days**

L&B/Gender - p. 234-251 and 367-372
Anne Fausto-Sterling, "Life in the XY Corral"
Bonnie Spanier, "From Molecules to Brains…"

Wyer et al./Feminism - p. 161-174
Suzanne Kessler , "The Medical Construction of Gender"

October 11th

TECHNOLOGY - Space and Tools
Wyer et al./Feminism - p. 99-116, p. 194-208 and 223-238
Carol Cohn, "Sex and death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals"
Judy Wajcman, "The Built Environment: Women's Place, Gendered Space"
Rachel Maines, "Socially Camouflaged Technologies: The Case of the Electromechanical Vibrator"

October 16th

October Study Day -- No Class

October 18th

SOCIOBIOLOGY and PRIMATOLOGY
L&B/Gender - p. 252-271
Donna Haraway, "The Biopolitics of a Multicultural Field"

Wyer et. al/Feminism - p. 175-193 and 239-253
Ruth Bleir, "Sociobiology, Biological Determinism, and Human Behavior"
Linda Fedigan, "Is Primatology a Feminist Science?"

October 23rd

Analyzing Gendered Science: Overview of Feminist Critiques
THE CASE OF BARBARA McCLINTOCK
EFK -- entire

October 25th

EFK -- entire

Wyer et al/Feminism - p. 132-142
Evelyn Fox Keller, "Gender and Science: An Update"

October 30th

WHAT IS 'FEMINIST SCIENCE'?
L&B/Gender - p. 123-144
Sue Rosser, "Are There Feminist Methodologies Appropriate to the Natural Sciences…?"

Wyer et al/Feminism - p. 216-222
Helen Longino, "Can There be a Feminist Science?"

November 1st

STANDPOINT EPISTEMOLOGY
L&B/Gender - p. 145-188
Sandra Harding, "Feminist Standpoint Epistemology"
Donna Haraway, "Situated Knowledges"

November 6th

MULTICULTURALISM in SCIENCE
L&B/Gender - p. 189- 224
Sandra Harding, "Is Science Multicultural? Challenges, Resources, Opportunities"
Helen Longino, "Subjects, Power and Knowledge: Description and Prescription in Feminist Philosophies"

November 8th

SHOULD SCIENTISTS DO 'FEMINIST' SCIENCE - why or why not?
L&B/Gender - p. 437-446
Muriel Lederman, "Structuring Feminist Science"

Wyer et al/Feminism - p. 153-160
Ruth Hubbard, "Science, Facts, and Feminism"
plus
(HANDOUT) Martha Crouch, "The very structure of scientific research mitigates against developing products to help the environment, the poor, and the hungry." J. Agricultural and Environmental Ethics 4 (1992):151-158.

November 13th

RESTRUCTURING SCIENCE: Can and Should Feminists Work to Create New Knowledge, Social Policy, Change?
THEORY AND PRACTICE in EDUCATION
L&B/Gender - p. 386-422 -
E. Anne Kerr, "Toward a Feminist Natural Science: Linking Theory and Practice"
Bonnie Shulman, "Implications of Feminist Critiques for the Teaching of Mathematics and Science"

November 15th

**SECOND PAPER DUE**
View FILM-- Game Over: Gender, Race, and Violence in Video Games (MEF, 2000)

 

November 20th

CLINICAL MEDICINE
L&B/Gender - p. 303-306
Curtis Meinert, "Inclusion of Women in Clinical Trials"

Wyer et. al/Feminism - p. 285-301
Emily Martin, "Premenstrual Syndrome, Work Discipline, and Anger"

November 22nd

Thanksgiving Break -- No Class

November 27th

REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE
Wyer et. al/Feminism - p. 312-331
Cynthia Daniels, "Between Fathers and Fetuses: The Social Construction of Male Reproduction"
plus
(HANDOUT) Abby Lippman, "Prenatal Genetic Testing and Screening: Constructing Needs and Reinforcing Inequities," American Journal of Law and Medicine (Boston, American Society of Law & Medicine) 17 (1991): p. 15-50.

November 29th

TECHNOLOGY: Computers
Wyer et. al/Feminism - p. 332-354
Alison Adam, "Feminist AI Projects and Cyberfutures"
Plus
(HANDOUT) Donna Haraway, "The Cyborg Manifesto" (1985)

December 4th

ECOLOGICAL SCIENCE and The Issues of GLOBALIZATION
L&B/Gender -p. 447-465
Vandana Shiva, "Democratizing Biology: Reinventing Biology From a Fem, Ecol. & 3rd World Perspec."

Wyer/Et al/Feminism - p. 302-311
Ruth Perry, "Engendering Environmental Thinking: A Feminist Analysis of the Present Crisis"

December 6th

**VISITING SPEAKER**

Carol Kemelgor, co-author of ATHENA UNBOUND: The Advancement of Women in Science and Technology (2001) (link allows you to read sample pages on-line )

December 11th

**Reminder - Sign Up for Conference Work Presentation Next Week - Tueday of Thursday**
L&B/Gender -- p. 289-302
Helen Zweifel, "The Gendered Nature of Biodiversity Conservation"
Plus
(HANDOUT) Martha Johnson, "Research on Traditional Environmental Knowledge…," in M. Johnson, ed., Lore: Capturing Traditional Environmental Knowledge (Dene Cultural Institute, 1992), p. 3-22.

December 13th

**Conference Papers Due**

Concluding reflections/summary discussion

CREATING SUSTAINABLE SCIENCE
L&B/Gender - p. 466-490
Londa Schiebinger, "Creating Sustainable Science"
Hilary Rose, "Epilogue: Women's Work is Never Done"

December 18th

Conference Work presentations

December 20th

No Class Meeting