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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"feminist science studies"”.
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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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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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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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Sociocultural studies of biomedicine and healthcare in everyday literate lifeworlds
This dissertation uses sociocultural studies approaches to investigate the multimodal practices of reception that patients and medical professionals use in their everyday lives as they engage health-related information. People demonstrate their active uptake of professional writing through …