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The Politics of Women's Biology

by Ruth Hubbard

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$38.95

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Price:: $38.95
ISBN:: 9780813514901
Published:: Jan 01, 1990

Release Date:: 1st January 1990
Publisher:: Rutgers University Press
Imprint:: Rutgers University Press
Pages:: 240

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For a range of historical and contemporary issues in eugenics, human evolution, and procreative technology, Ruth Hubbard explains why scientific descriptions and choices should not generalize human, or female, attributes without acknowledging the realities of people's lives. Sophisticated in its analysis, yet not at all technical in its exposition, this book will find a wide readership among feminists, the general public, and the scientific community.

"Exposing the ideological bases of the medical/scientific information (and disinformation) we receive, Hubbard . . . gives us a book sophisticated in its analysis but accessible in its style."
---Ms. magazine

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Science and Science Criticism
Part One. How Do We Know?
1. Science in Context
2. Fact Making and Feminism
3. Women in Academia
4. Women Scientists
5. The Double Helix: A Study of Science in Context
Part Two. What Do We Know?
6. Genes as Causes
7. Have Only Men Evolved?
8. Human Nature
9. Rethinking Women's Biology
10. The Social Construction of Sexuality
11. Constructing Sex Difference
Part Three. How Do We Use It?
12. Medical, Legal, and Social Implications of Prenatal Technologies
13. Prenatal Technologies and the Experience of Childbearing
14. Who Should and Who Should Not Inhabit the World?
15. Of Embryos and Women
Some Final Thoughts
Bibliography
Index

Related topics: Science / History, Social Science / Women's Studies