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Zuska is the kick-ass alter-ego of Suzanne E Franks. When not dispensing Zuska's wisdom, Suzanne can often be found gardening, reading, or having one of her thrice-weekly migraines.
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You will be wanting to read my excellent essay, 'Suzy the Computer' vs. 'Dr. Sexy': What's a Geek Girl to Do When She Wants to Get Laid? in She's Such a Geek! Women Write About Science, Technology, and Other Nerdy Stuff.
If you have not yet figured out why you shoud not be using terms like "hard science" and "soft skills", then you absolutely need to read Telling Stories About Engineering: Group Dynamics and Resistance to Diversity in NWSA Journal v. 16 No. 1, 2004 (Re)Gendering Science Fields.
You should also read They Blinded Me With Science: Misuse and Misunderstanding of Biological Theory, an excellent critique of Thornhill and Palmer's nonsense about rape as an evolutionary strategy. You can find it in Burack and Josephson's must-read tome, Fundamental Differences: Feminists Talk Back to Social Conservatives.
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June 26, 2009
Category: Zuska's Outreach Project For D00dly D00ds
Christina Pikas has a nice post about finding information in books. Sadly, however, she notes the following: What kinds of things might a book work best for?...not for cutting edge, mostly What does this imply when you think about our...
Posted by Zuska at 1:23 AM • 8 Comments •
June 24, 2009
Category: Gendering Technology
Cooking is a "primitive protection racket" in which men agree to protect women's food supply in return for being fed so they can just hang out and do manly shit. A Harvard professor says so on Bloggingheads.tv!
Posted by Zuska at 12:37 PM • 20 Comments •
June 22, 2009
Category: Announcements
Hi all...just wanted to let you know that I am planning to do the first post for Chapter 2 of The Gender Knot sometime next week, probably mid-week. I have the new edition of the book and have been reading...
Posted by Zuska at 2:28 PM • 4 Comments •
June 16, 2009
Category: Zuska's Outreach Project For D00dly D00ds
Female eyes gazing out of geeky glass frames don't have the same cultural cachet as the male gaze.
Posted by Zuska at 7:09 PM • 50 Comments •
June 15, 2009
Category: Zuska's Outreach Project For D00dly D00ds
When you are a leaf on the tree of patriarchy, you cannot pretend like your actions take place in isolation and without consequence for or connection to or meaning for any of the other leaves on the tree.
Posted by Zuska at 6:39 PM • 17 Comments •
Category: Announcements
Kim at All of My Faults Are Stress Related asks: I've got a question for women readers, especially those in the geosciences, environmental sciences, or field sciences: what do you get out of reading blogs? And if you have a...
Posted by Zuska at 6:16 PM • 2 Comments •
June 11, 2009
Category: Zuska's Outreach Project For D00dly D00ds
Yes, I am speaking of tit-ogling.
Posted by Zuska at 7:10 PM • 59 Comments •
June 9, 2009
Category: Geekalicious
As Raymond notes in his preface, the audience he had in mind for his book is aesthetes, and "the essential 'facts' of the irons are in the photographs."
Posted by Zuska at 2:29 PM • 9 Comments •
June 4, 2009
Category: Burns My Shorts
See if you can figure out...the answer to the blog post question.
Posted by Zuska at 9:15 AM • 18 Comments •
June 1, 2009
Category: Naming Experience
By now perhaps you have heard of the Silence Is The Enemy project started by Sheril Kirshenbaum at The Intersection with help from Isis at On Becoming a Domestic and Laboratory Goddess. From Sheril's post: Today begins a very important...
Posted by Zuska at 11:07 PM • 37 Comments •
