Gender and Scientific Authority

Introduction by the Editors

The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought
Patricia Hill Collins

The Postmodernist Turn in Anthropology: Cautions from a Feminist Perspective
Frances E. Mascia-Lees, Patricia Sharpe, Colleen Ballerino Cohen

Knowers, Knowing, Known: Feminist Theory and Claims of Truth
Mary E. Hawkesworth

Political Arithmetic: The Nineteenth-Century Australian Census and the Construction of the Dependent Woman
Desley Deacon

Women's Voices in Nineteenth-Century Medical Discourse: A Step toward Deconstructing Science
Nancy M. Theriot

Women and Computers: An Introduction
Ruth Perry, Lisa Greber

Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals
Carol Cohn

Science and the Construction of Gendered Subjectivities

The Trials of Alice Mitchell: Sensationalism, Sexology, and the Lesbian Subject in Turn-of-the-Century America
Lisa Duggan

Looking and Listening: The Construction of Clinical Knowledge in Charcot and Freud
Daphne de Marneffe

Field Dependence Research: A Historical Analysis of a Psychological Construct
Janice Haaken

Meta-Analysis and the Psychology of Gender Differences
Janet Shibley Hyde

The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles
Emily Martin

The Medical Construction of Gender: Case Management of Intersexed Infants
Suzanne J. Kessler

Baboons with Briefcases: Feminism, Functionalism, and Sociobiology in the Evolution of Primate Gender
Susan Sperling

Engendering Reproductive Policy and Practice in Peasant China: For a Feminist Demography of Reproduction
Susan Greenhalgh, Jiali Li

About the Contributors

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