Women Gender And Technosciences 1900–2020 A Beard To Govern

This innovative volume analyzes the historical entanglement of gender technosciences and government/governance. Situated at the crossroad of women and gender studies science and technology studies and political sociology this volume shows the ever‑accumulating gendered mechanisms that have determined the careers of scientific women and their access to power positions. It underlines on different scales-from the lab to international organizations or states-how the masculine culture of technoscientific practices has assigned women to subaltern institutional positions while social practices of legitimization and recognition ended up granting some women access to leadership positions outside of institutions. With a broad geographic political and disciplinary scope the contributors draw on a variety of new sources including interviews private collections and archives to examine the institutions structures and policies that shaped the technosciences as well as the individuals who developed practices and environments that gained agency for themselves and their contemporaries. This book will be of interest to students and scholars alike interested in women and gender studies political studies STS history and sociology of science and technology. Chapters 1 and 8 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF at http://www.taylorfrancis.com under a Creative Commons CC-BY-SA 4.0 International license. |Women Gender and Technosciences 1900–2020 A Beard to Govern