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Cover Gender in Science and Technology; Table of Contents; Introduction; A. Gender in the Design Processes of New Technologies; Gendering the Technological Imagination; Feminist Interventions in the Design Process; Searching for Methodology; Masks between the Visible and the Invisible; B. Gender in Epistemological Foundations of Science and Technology; Homunculus in the Hormones?; Motherhood and Scientific Innovation; Diffraction Patterns?; Gender Research as Knowledge Resource in Technology and Engineering; C. Reflecting Un/equal Conditions for Participation. Can Women Engineers be 'Real Engineers' and 'Real Women'?Similar But Different?; Gender Competence in Mathematics Teacher Education; Contributors. What role does gender play in scientific research and the development of technologies? This book provides methodological expertise, research experiences and empirical findings in the dynamic field of Science and Technology Studies. The authors, coming from computer science, social sciences, or cultural studies of science, discuss how to ask questions about gender and give examples for the application in interdisciplinary research, development and teaching. Topics range from the des

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Author

Ernst, Waltraud; Horwath, Ilona

Publisher

Transcript Verlag ; Columbia University Press [distributor

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9783839424346

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Technology, Social Science