Women, Science, and Myth - Gender Beliefs from Antiquity to the Present (Hardcover)

This encyclopedia surveys the scientific research on gender throughout the ages-the people, experiments, and impact-of both legitimate and illegitimate findings on the scientific community, women scientists, and society at large. Women, Science, and Myth: Gender Beliefs from Antiquity to the Present examines the ways scientists have researched gender throughout history, the ways those results have affected society, and the impact they have had on the scientific community and on women, women scientists, and women's rights movements. In chronologically organized entries, Women, Science, and Myth explores the people and experiments that exemplify the problematic relationship between science and gender throughout the centuries, with particular emphasis on the 20th century. The encyclopedia offers a section on focused cross-period themes such as myths of gender in different scientific disciplines and the influence of cultural norms on specific eras of gender research. It is a timely and revealing resource that celebrates science's legitimate accomplishments in understanding gender while unmasking the sources of a number of debilitating biases concerning women's intelligence and physical attributes. Chronologically organized entries describing people and events influential in the development of scientific research on gender 40 thematic entries looking at larger issues across regions, disciplines, and historical eras A section of supportive demographic/statistical information

General

Imprint:	ABC-CLIO Ltd
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	June 2008
First published:	June 2008
Editors:	Sue V. Rosser
Dimensions:	254 x 178 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	502
ISBN-13:	978-1-59884-095-7
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > General
LSN:	1-59884-095-9
Barcode:	9781598840957

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