• DOI:10.1086/345319
• Corpus ID: 146670080

Introduction: Feminism Inside the Sciences

@article{Schiebinger2003IntroductionFI,
  title={Introduction: Feminism Inside the Sciences},
  author={Londa Schiebinger},
  journal={Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society},
  year={2003},
  volume={28},
  pages={859 - 866}
}

• L. Schiebinger
• Published 1 March 2003
• Education
• Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society

T his cluster of articles engages in what I hope will become a growing trend: scientists encouraging and discussing feminist changes in their particular fields of research. The articles presented here address to what extent feminism—conceived as a political and social movement and as an academic perspective—has brought new questions and priorities to the sciences. Where have changes been deep and enduring? Where do problems remain? How can feminists best foster creative and socially responsible science? Historians like to date the origins of modern feminist science studies (vs., say, contributions by Christine de Pisan or Christian Harless) from the publication of Carolyn Merchant’s The Death of Nature (1980). Over the past twenty-some years, a great deal of work has been done on women’s exclusion from science, how gender has been one potent factor structuring scientific institutions and practices, and how gender hierarchies have shaped scientific priorities and theories. Much of this work has been done by his-