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Alice through the microscope : the power of science over women's lives / by the Brighton Women & Science Group ; edited by Lynda Birke, Wendy Faulkner.
Record no.:
3428
Author:
Brighton Women and Science Group.;
Birke, Lynda.;
Publisher:
London :: Virago,
Year:
1980.
Description:
[7], 306 pages : illustrations, tables ; 21 cm
Subject:
Women's rights.;
Women - Health and hygiene.;
Affirmative action programs.;
Technological innovations - Social aspects.;
Science.;
Science - Social aspects.;
Femininity.;
Women - Social conditions.;
Notes:
Gift ; Nagle Library MacLeod Collection copy donated by Emeritus Professor Roy MacLeod.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Type:
Monograph
ISBN:
0860680797 (pbk.) 0860680789 :;
Abstract:
Part one. Science and women in society --

Science education : did she drop out or was she pushed? /

Libby Curran --

Psychological sex differences /

Janet Sayers --

Sociobiology : so what? /

Deirdre Janson-Smith
--

Part two. Science and women's bodies --

The tyrannical womb : menstruation and menopause /

Lynda Birke and Sandy Best --

From zero to infinity : scientific views of lesbians /

Lynda Birke --

'Sickness is a woman's business?' : reflections on the attribution of illness /

Hilary Standing --

The obsessive orgasm : science, sex and female sexuality /Wendy Faulkner --

Part three. Technological control --

Technology in the lying-in room /

The Brighton Women and Science Group --

Contraception : the growth of a technology /

Vivien Walsh --

Reproductive engineering : the final solution? /

Jalna Hanmer and Pat Allen --

The masculine face of science /

Ruth Wallsgrove --

Appendix : Some biological information.
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