Bøger i Race, Gender, and Science serien

The essays reveal science to be a cultural institution, structured by the political, social, and economic values of the culture within which it is practiced.

Provides a framework for understanding the persistence of the Western view of woman as inferior.

Presents an argument that bodies are knowable only through culture and history; they are not in any simple way natural, nor free of relations of power. This book traces the construction of particular deviant bodies, including the homosexual body, the HIV-infected body, the infertile body, the deaf body, the colonized body, and the criminal body.

The role of gender in making and shaping mathematicians.

Explores what the last few decades of European/American, feminist, and postcolonial science and technology studies can learn from each other. This book proposes new directions for thinking about objectivity, method, and reflexivity in light of the new understandings developed in the post-World War II world.

Disputes science's legitimization of culturally approved definitions of race difference.