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Author | : Ruth Hubbard |
Publisher | : Schenkman Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 268 |
Release | : 1979-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780870738968 |
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Author | : Ruth Hubbard |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 9780813514901 |
Download The Politics of Women's Biology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
In this work the author explores the social and political assumptions of biology, and genetics in particular. She examines the ways biologists use scientific language, use genetics, and apply it to human situations, especially to women's situations.
Author | : Ruth Hubbard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780870739460 |
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Author | : Ruth Bleier |
Publisher | : Pergamon |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 1984 |
Genre | : Biology |
ISBN | : |
Download Science and Gender Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Bleier (neurophysiology, U. of Wisconsin-Madison) dissects the theme of women's biological inferiority contending that science has been engaged in elaborate mythologizing to explain the subordinate position of women in Western civilizations since Aristotle. Exploring the scientific and ideological bases of contemporary theories in gender differences, the author critically examines studies in sociobiology, sex differences in brain structure and cognitive function, human cultural evolution, anthropology, and sexuality. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author | : Lynda I. A. Birke |
Publisher | : Georgetown University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Animal experimentation |
ISBN | : 9780253209818 |
Download Reinventing Biology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Much more than a book about animal welfare, it explores how the scientific questions and answers would be different if biology operated from a paradigm of respect for the objects of study. Thirteen contributions are arranged in four distinct sections; individual topics vary extensively but each is first-rate." --Choice "Ruth Hubbard and Lynda Birke have asked an important question: how would the practices of biology change if organisms were considered subjects with agency? They have gathered an array of excellent scholars and a broad spectrum of perspectives.... this is a fresh and important question." --Londa Schiebinger Essays explore how the practice of biology could change if scientists treated the organisms they use in their experiments respectfully: what it means to raise animals or plants as experimental resources; what guides decisions about which animals to breed for experimental purposes.
Author | : Michael Ruse |
Publisher | : Oxford Handbooks Online |
Total Pages | : 658 |
Release | : 2008-07-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0195182057 |
Download The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Biology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This handbook covers the history of philosophy of biology then moves on to evolutionary theory. It continues with discussions of molecular biology and ecology, and covers biology and ethics as well as biology and religion.
Author | : Sarah Blaffer Hrdy |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 303 |
Release | : 1999-12-20 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0674264592 |
Download The Woman That Never Evolved Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
What does it mean to be female? Sarah Blaffer Hrdy--a sociobiologist and a feminist--believes that evolutionary biology can provide some surprising answers. Surprising to those feminists who mistakenly think that biology can only work against women. And surprising to those biologists who incorrectly believe that natural selection operates only on males. In The Woman That Never Evolved we are introduced to our nearest female relatives competitive, independent, sexually assertive primates who have every bit as much at stake in the evolutionary game as their male counterparts do. These females compete among themselves for rank and resources, but will bond together for mutual defense. They risk their lives to protect their young, yet consort with the very male who murdered their offspring when successful reproduction depends upon it. They tolerate other breeding females if food is plentiful, but chase them away when monogamy is the optimal strategy. When "promiscuity" is an advantage, female primates--like their human cousins--exhibit a sexual appetite that ensures a range of breeding partners. From case after case we are led to the conclusion that the sexually passive, noncompetitive, all-nurturing woman of prevailing myth never could have evolved within the primate order. Yet males are almost universally dominant over females in primate species, and Homo sapiens is no exception. As we see from this book, women are in some ways the most oppressed of all female primates. Sarah Blaffer Hrdy is convinced that to redress sexual inequality in human societies, we must first understand its evolutionary origins. We cannot travel back in time to meet our own remote ancestors, but we can study those surrogates we have--the other living primates. If women --and not biology--are to control their own destiny, they must understand the past and, as this book shows us, the biological legacy they have inherited.
Author | : Hilary Rose |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 353 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1844678814 |
Download Genes, Cells and Brains: The Promethean Promises of the New Biology Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Dissecting the hype from the frontiers of bioethics, genomics and neuroscience.
Author | : Lorraine Code |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 585 |
Release | : 2002-06-01 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 1134787251 |
Download Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The path-breaking Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories is an accessible, multidisciplinary insight into the complex field of feminist thought. The Encyclopedia contains over 500 authoritative entries commissioned from an international team of contributors and includes clear, concise and provocative explanations of key themes and ideas. Each entry contains cross references and a bibliographic guide to further reading; over 50 biographical entries provide readers with a sense of how the theories they encounter have developed out of the lives and situations of their authors.
Author | : Donna Haraway |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 425 |
Release | : 2013-05-13 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1135964750 |
Download Simians, Cyborgs, and Women Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Simians, Cyborgs and Women is a powerful collection of ten essays written between 1978 and 1989. Although on the surface, simians, cyborgs and women may seem an odd threesome, Haraway describes their profound link as "creatures" which have had a great destabilizing place in Western evolutionary technology and biology. Throughout this book, Haraway analyzes accounts, narratives, and stories of the creation of nature, living organisms, and cyborgs. At once a social reality and a science fiction, the cyborg--a hybrid of organism and machine--represents transgressed boundaries and intense fusions of the nature/culture split. By providing an escape from rigid dualisms, the cyborg exists in a post-gender world, and as such holds immense possibilities for modern feminists. Haraway's recent book, Primate Visions, has been called "outstanding," "original," and "brilliant," by leading scholars in the field. (First published in 1991.)