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Gender and Science
Author(s) -
Löwy Ilana
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
gender and history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.153
H-Index - 30
eISSN - 1468-0424
pISSN - 0953-5233
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0424.00160
Subject(s) - biomedicine , masculinity , femininity , human sexuality , natural (archaeology) , ideology , sociology , reproduction , domain (mathematical analysis) , epistemology , social science , psychology , gender studies , political science , history , politics , law , ecology , philosophy , biology , archaeology , mathematical analysis , genetics , mathematics
While there are several different approaches to the study of gender and science, this paper focuses on the consequences of the introduction of the concept of gender on studies of scientific and medical practices. It is limited, in the main, to historical studies of twentieth‐century biomedicine, which allows an examination of the validity of scientific assumptions underlying our understanding of the natural world, the genesis and the present status of scientific definitions of masculinity and femininity, and the ideological basis of science‐based technological interventions in the domain of sexuality and reproduction.