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Women and Scientific Literacy
Faculty Development Seminar

List of Readings
(May 1997)

Curriculum Reform: Theory and Practice

Reaching the Majority - Retaining Women in the Pipeline by Sue V. Rosser

Building Two-Way Streets: The Case of Feminism and Science by Anne Fausto-Sterling

Educating Women for Success in Science and Mathematics by Sue V. Rosser and Bonnie Kelly

Epistemology, Pedagogy and Theory

The Next Millennium Is Now Here: Women’s Studies Perspectives on Biotechnics and Reproductive Technologies by Sue Rosser

Critiques of Modern Science: The Relationship of Feminism to Other Radical Epistemologies by Elizabeth Fee

Is Science Multicultural? Challenges, Resources, Opportunities, Uncertainties by Sandra Harding

A Native American Worldview by Paula Underwood Spencer

The Native American Indian Student in the Science Classroom: Cultural Clash or Match? By Catherine Hurt Middlecamp

Objectivity and the Escape from Perspective by Lorraine Daston

Modeling the Gender Politics in Science by Elizabeth Potter

The Structure of Scientific Revolution by Thomas Kuhn

Meeting the Universe Halfway: Realism and Social Constructivism Without Contradiction by Karen Barad

Mathematics

What if We Change the Axioms? A Feminist Inquiry into the Foundations of Mathematics by Bonnie Shulman

Physical Sciences

Culturally Inclusive Chemistry by Catherine Hurt Middlecamp

A Feminist Approach to Teaching Quantum Physics by Karen Barad

Biological Sciences

From Menstruation to DNA: Centralized Control by Bonnie B. Spanier

Power at a Price by Bonnie B. Spanier

The Importance of Feminist Critique for Contemporary Cell Biology by The Biology and Gender Study Group

Evolutionary Biology and Feminism by Patricia Adair Gowaty

A Question of Genus: Are Men Really Smarter than Women?

Science and Belief: Psychobiological Research on Sexual Orientation by William Byne

Genes as Causes by Ruth Hubbard

Human Nature by Ruth Hubbard

"Race"/Ethnicity and Global Perspectives

Appropriating the Idioms: The Rejection of Scientific Racism by Nancy Leys Stephan and Sander L. Gilman

Environmental Racism by Karl Grossman

Modern Science in Crisis: A Third World Response by Third Word Network

Science and Politics and the Green Revolution by Vandana Shiva

Syllabi

Chemistry Courses

Biology Courses

Physics Courses

Math Courses

Philosophy of Science Courses

Women and Technology Courses

Women, Gender and Science Courses

Interdisciplinary General Education Courses

Bibliographies


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