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Women, Science, and Myth: Gender Beliefs from Antiquity to the Present

Women, Science, and Myth: Gender Beliefs from Antiquity to the Present

Rosser, Sue V.

Hardcover

General ReferenceGeneral Gender StudiesGeneral Science

ISBN10: 1598840959
ISBN13: 9781598840957
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: Jun 1 2008
Pages: 520
Weight: 2.34
Height: 1.27 Width: 7.03 Depth: 10.16
Language: English

This encyclopedia surveys the scientific research on gender throughout the ages--the people, experiments, and impact--of both legitimate and illegitimate findings on the scientific community, women scientists, and society at large.

Women, Science, and Myth: Gender Beliefs from Antiquity to the Present examines the ways scientists have researched gender throughout history, the ways those results have affected society, and the impact they have had on the scientific community and on women, women scientists, and women's rights movements.

In chronologically organized entries, Women, Science, and Myth explores the people and experiments that exemplify the problematic relationship between science and gender throughout the centuries, with particular emphasis on the 20th century. The encyclopedia offers a section on focused cross-period themes such as myths of gender in different scientific disciplines and the influence of cultural norms on specific eras of gender research. It is a timely and revealing resource that celebrates science's legitimate accomplishments in understanding gender while unmasking the sources of a number of debilitating biases concerning women's intelligence and physical attributes.

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