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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Feminist science"”.
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Colonizing Bodies: a Feminist Science Studies Critique of Anti-Fgm Discourse
… of female circumcision brings together medical science, women's health activism, and national and international policy-making in pursuit of the common goal of protecting female bodies from harm. To date, most criticisms of female circumcision, practiced mainly in parts of Africa and Southwest …
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Queering the family as an act of resistance, transformation, and hope in Indigenous futurist, Afrofuturist, and New Wave feminist science fiction
… examines queer representations of the family in feminist, Afrofuturist, and Indigenous futurist science fiction (sf), focusing on how authors kept to the margins of the genre—women, Black, and Indigenous authors—use sf to challenge heteronormative family ideology. Although science fiction …
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Excavating Radical Futures: Puppets, Robots, And The Fight For Technology
… Foundation, and the history of cybernetics and science fiction. Examining this history uncovers the implicit and explicit values and assumptions embedded in the objects and technologies themselves, as well as how popular understandings and representations of those objects can reinforce or …
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Critical breaking
Utilizing critical and feminist science and technology studies methods, this thesis offers a new framework, called critical breaking, to allow for reflective and critical examination and analysis of instances of error, breakdown, and failure in digital systems. This framework has three key analytic …
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Practices of Brokering: Between STS and Feminist Engineering Education Research
… gender research therein, and contribute to feminist science studies literature on the challenges and opportunities of interdisciplinary work across women's studies and STEM fields. Building upon Wenger's concept of brokering, I analyze how I brought previously underexplored STS and feminist …
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Tangled Circuits: Characterizing Errors in Experimental Superconducting Quantum Processors
… the field of superconducting quantum information science. In Part II, we consider the design, simulation, and measurement of high coherence quantum bits mediated by tunable coupler elements, a fundamental building block of extensible quantum processors based on superconducting Josephson circuits. …
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Gender ambivalence, fragmented self, and the subversive nature of James Tiptree, Jr.'s science fiction
… Having established herself as an influential science fiction male writer for a decade, Alice Sheldon successfully defied preconceived notions about masculine and feminine writing styles. Her two adopted textual personas, Tiptree and Raccoona Sheldon, reflect different facets of her …
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Mediating Moore: Uncertain Origins and Indeterminate Identities in the Work of C. L. Moore
… L.: Lucille) Moore, one of the earliest female science fiction writers, is widely regarded by SF writers, editors, and fans as one of the field’s most influential founding mothers, with female SF writer Marion Zimmer Bradley claiming Moore as the "mother" of all women who write science …
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Biocultural strength: Understanding sex, gender, and performance in Olympic weightlifting
… women’s strength. Positioned within the field of feminist Science Technology Studies (STS), this research operationalizes feminist Actor-Network Theory to guide examination of the contents and effects of local and international Olympic Weightlifting knowledge networks. Ethnographic methods are …
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Wild Blue Media: Thinking Through Seawater
… between embodiment and knowledge taken up by feminist science studies, and necessitates the inclusion of the environmental conditions for knowing; our milieu determines the possibilities of our media, and the way that we theorize our media in language. The ocean thus serves as an epistemic …
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The Conditions of Emergence: Towards a Feminist Philosophy of The Origins of Life
<p>This dissertation explores the limits of feminist theory in terms of what questions it can address, and does this by reimagining the relation feminist theory and late nineteenth and twentieth-century continental thought can have with scientific research concerning the origins of life. I argue …
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Values and Science: An Interdisciplinary Feminist Exploration
… is an experiment in interdisciplinary feminist philosophy of science. It explores an extremely broad question—what is the relationship between science and social values? —by interweaving three families of methodological approaches, to produce three papers, each geared to a different …
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Painting life in extremes Charles Maturin and the Gothic genre
… first phase of what we would today describe as feminist rebellion. All this was accompanied, as we can see from the criticism, by a strong conservative reaction in defence of the threatened values. The present study emphasizes the ways in which Maturin's work shared the new energies associated …
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Impact of Undergraduates' Stereotypes of Scientists on their Intentions to Pursue a Career in Science
… remain disproportionately represented in certain science, technology, engineering, and math majors and occupations. Stereotypes of scientists may help expose the reasons for this phenomenon. However, this relationship has not yet been empirically examined. This is partly because of the dearth of …
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Synthetic Women: Gender, Power, and Humanoid Sex Robots
… from gender studies, cultural studies, and feminist technoscience literature, this dissertation employs an interdisciplinary approach to analyze the androcentric imaginaries through which humanoid sex robots ("sexbots") emerge. Specifically, I utilize sexbots to interrogate and reflect on …
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Sociocultural studies of biomedicine and healthcare in everyday literate lifeworlds
… the chapters trace out three major concepts: a feminist and sociocultural approach to the analysis of everyday technical writing practices, the literate activity of the body including gesture in relationship to text, and the local situated practices of popular culture that inform understandings …