This course explores intersections of gender, feminism, science, and technology. The themes we will investigate are women in science, critical studies of scientific representations of sex and gender, technology and the body, and feminist epistemologies. Specific topics include: the historical exclusion of women from universities and scientific societies; women's contributions to major scientific discoveries; women as invisible technicians; the construction of gender differences in scientific writing and practice; feminist critiques of the scientific method; women, ecology, and the scientific revolution; the writings of men and women primatologists; and connections between ways of knowing and gender. Format: seminar. Requirements: several short papers; one final research paper. Enrollment limited. Priority given to majors and WGST concentrators.

Hour: CRIST