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"This essay considers the question, Has feminism changed science? After three decades of active research, what new insights, questions, and priorities have feminists-men or women-brought to the sciences? The author provides examples of change from three areas: women's health research, primatology, and archaeology. The essay concludes with a discussion of mainstreaming gender analysis into science." (author's abstract)"This study explores how science and scientists were produced and reproduced within
the setting of a university biology department. Building on recent work in the anthropology
of education and feminist science studies, the author explored the reflexive questions
of whether increased women's representation in science changed science practice and
whether changing science practice increased women's representation insolence. The
author examined both the contextual and constitutive values of science as they were
negotiated and played out in the training of scientists in this setting. The author
found some ways in which these values were shifting as more women assumed places of
leadership in the department. At the same time, the author identified other ways in
which the presence of women did not seem to cause the types of changes that feminist
science studies have hypothesized. These findings can be interpreted through the anthropological
perspective of practice theory, in which individuals are seen as exerting agency both
within and against institutional structures." (author's abstract)|"This article argues that the objections raised by Koertge (1998), Gross and Levitt (1994), and Weinberg (1996) against feminist scholarship on gender and physics are unwarranted. The objections are that feminist science studies perpetuate gender stereotypes, are irrelevant to the content of physics, or promote epistemic relativism. In the first part of this article I argue that the concept of gender, as it has been developed in feminist theory, is a key to understanding why the first objection is misguided. Instead of reinforcing gender stereotypes, feminist science studies scholars can formulate empirically testable hypotheses regarding local and contested beliefs about gender. In the second part of this article I argue that a social analysis of scientific knowledge is a key to understanding why the second and the third objections are misguided. The concept of gender is relevant for understanding the social practice of physics, and the social practice of physics can be of epistemic importance. Instead of advancing epistemic relativism, feminist science studies scholars can make important contributions to a subfield of philosophy called social epistemology." (author's abstract)