Overview
Gender: Nature retraces feminist and queer engagements with biology and science in scholarship, activism, art, and everyday life. The volume's 25 chapters are organized in 5 categories-disciplines, fields, maps, displays, and transgressions-and discuss the specific questions feminists and woman scientists have asked as well as the themes they have focused on. Such themes include history, medicine and health, literature and science, rural and urban environments, nature in the laboratory and museum, food, and sexuality. Chapters are written by eminent scholars, are peer reviewed, include illustrations, and offer bibliographies to encourage further research. The volume concludes with a glossary and a comprehensive index.
Features & Benefits
- GENDER: NATURE retraces feminist and queer engagements with biology and science in scholarship, activism, art, and everyday life.
- The primer to the Macmillan Interdisciplinary Handbooks series on gender, GENDER: SOURCES, PERSPECTIVES, AND METHODOLOGIES, is followed by GENDER: NATURE and other volumes that are dedicated to such broad themes as Animals, God, Laughter, Love, Matter, Space, Time, and War.
- All chapters in GENDER: NATURE are newly commissioned and hence based on fresh and topical research and debates from a variety of fields--including philosophy, anthropology, literature, art, social sciences, (old and new) media, history, politics, science, and religion.
- All chapters are written by eminent scholars and are peer reviewed.
- The volume will include a glossary, bibliographies of worked cited and suggestions for further reading, approximately 30 relevant images/charts/graphs, and an index.
