Resumen
Neste artigo, quero fazer a afirmação provocadora de que há algumas maneiras em que mudamos a ciência, mesmo que, uma vez mais, não exatamente da maneira ampla que algumas de nós imagináramos. Para fundamentar essa afirmação, arrolarei algumas mudanças – todas elas na biologia, e todas em óbvia simpatia com os objetivos feministas, mudanças que tiveram lugar tanto com o maior acesso das mulheres à ciência quanto com o surgimento da crítica feminista da ciência.
Abstract
In this article I want to make the provocative claim that there are some ways in which we did change science, even if, once again, not quite in the sweeping ways some of us had envisioned. To support this claim, I will list a number of shifts - all of them in biology, and all of them in obvious sympathy with feminist goals, that took place roughly contemporaneous both with the influx of women in science and the emergence of a feminist critique of science.
Key Words: Gender. Science. Feminist Critique of Science
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