Common Science?

Women, Science, and Knowledge

Author: Jean Barr
Secondary Author: Lynda I. A. Birke
ISBN: 9780253211811

"Science is everywhere yet it has nothing to do with me." That sense of science - of being both inside and outside at the same time - is one shared by many of the women interviewed by the authors. While science and technology permeate our lives, for most women and many men, scientific knowledge is outside their experience. Science remains largely unaccountable to the public who pay for it. Common Science confronts the issues of democratizing science and women's exclusion from scientific knowledge, viewing these as fundamentally feminist questions. Surveying the wide range of initiatives designed to encourage women and minorities into scientific training, the book points out that these tend to perceive women and minorities as the problem; science itself is rarely questioned. From the perspective of feminist critiques, science and how it is taught may well be part of the problem. Common Science is written by two feminists working in adult and higher education. Although the authors come f

Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publish Date: 1998

Subjects: Science / Research & Methodology

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: STEM)