Lecture on Feminist Science Studies – Suggested Readings

25 02 2008

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Suggested readings on Feminist Science Studies and the Science Wars

Association of American Colleges and Universities. 1999.Frequently Asked Questions About Feminist Science Studies http://www.aacu.org/publications/pdfs/FAQ1.pdf. (1 November 2006.)

Bryld, Mette and Nina Lykke. 2002. “Fra Rambo-sperm til æggedronninger. To versioner af videnskabsfotografen Lennart Nilssons film om den menneskelige forplantning.”Kvinder, Køn og Forskning 11, no. 3: 8-21, “From Rambo-sperm to Egg Queens. Two Versions of Science Photographer Lennart Nilsson’s Most Recent Film on Human Reproduction,” http://www.sts.gu.se/seminars/papers/lykke.pdf. (1 November 2006.)

Grossman, Paul R. and Norman Levitt. (1994). “Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science.” Maryland: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Kellor, Evelyn Fox. 2004. “What impact, if any, has feminism had on science?” Journal of Bio-sciences 29, no. 1 (March 2004): 7-13.

Martin, Emily. 1991. “The Egg and Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 16, no.3 (Spring 1991): 485-501.

———1996. “Meeting Polemics with Irenics in the Science Wars.” Social Text. 46/47 (Spring/Summer 1996): 43-60.

McMillen, Liz. 1996. “The Science Wars: Scholars Who Study the Lab Say Their Work Has Been Distorted.” The Chronicle of Higher Education (June 28, 1996): A8.

Moore, Lisa Jean. 2002. “Extracting Men From Semen: Masculinity in Scientific Representations of Sperm.” Social Texts 20, no. 4 (Winter 2002): 91-119.

Schiebinger, Londa. 2003. “Introduction: Feminism Inside the Sciences.” Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 28, no. 3 (Spring 2003): 859-867.

Sokal, Alan. 1996a. “Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity” Social Text 46/47 (Spring/Summer 1996) 217-52.

___. 1996b. “A Physicist Experiments with Cultural Studies.” Lingua Franca. (May/June 1996): 62-64, no. 1-6. <http://physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/lingua_franca_v4.pdf.> (1 November 2006).

___. 1996c. “Transgressing the Boundaries: An Afterward.” Dissent 43, no. 4 (Fall 1996): 93-99., no. 1-15. <htttp: //physics.nyu.edu/faculty/sokal/afterword_v1a.pdf.> (1 November 2006).

Sokal, Alan and Jean Bricomont. 2001. “Reply to Our Critics.” In The One Culture? A Conversation about Science edited by Jay a. Labinger and Harry Collins, 243-254. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Suggested Readings on Ultrasounds & Feminist Readings of the Pregnant Body

Alan Guttmacher Institute. 2002. “May 8, 2002 Press Release.” http://www.guttmacher.org/media/nr/2002/05/08/nr_gr0502.html.

Maheer, JaneMaree. 2002. “Visibly Pregnant: Toward a Placental Body.” Feminist Review 72 (2002): 98-107.

Mitchell, Lisa M. and Eugenia Georges. 1998. “Baby’s First Picture: The Cyborg Fetus of Ultrasound Imaging.” In “Cyborg Babies: From Techno-Sex to Techno-Tot”, edited by. Robbie Davis-Floyd and Joseph Dunit. New York: Routledge, 105-124.

NOVA. (1996) “Behind the Lens: An Interview with Lennart Nilsson.” http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/odyssey/nilsson.html.

Petchesky, Rosalind Pollack. 1987. “Fetal Images: The Power of Visual Culture in Politics of Representation.” Feminist Studies (13: 2), 262-292.

Rothman, Barbara Katz. (1986) The Tentative Pregnancy: Prenatal Diagnosis and the Future of Motherhood. United States: Penguin.

Sturken, Nina and Lisa Cartwright. 2001. “Scientific Looking, Looking at Science.” In Practices of Looking: An Introduction to Visual Culture. New York: Oxford University Press, 279-313.


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