The Bimbo Game
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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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The place where I come from...is a small town. Coalfields of the Appalachian Mountains
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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Gendering Technology:
"Gendered Innovations in Science"
From the AWIS Washington Wire: A new collection of essays, Gendered Innovations in Science and Engineering, explores how taking gender into account in the areas of science, medicine, and engineering can enhance human knowledge. Inside Higher Ed has a conversation...Posted on May 1, 2008 9:02 AM • 8 Comments •
It's Just No Use, Girls: A Profound Analysis of Gender and Engineering
There is Boy Stuff, and there is Girl Stuff. Engineering is Boy Stuff.Posted on April 30, 2008 6:56 PM • 63 Comments •
Explaining (Away) Women Geeks
The article on Mayer follows this pattern, simultaneously overexposing and erasing her.Posted on April 8, 2008 4:26 PM • 106 Comments •
From the Department of Critically Needed New Technology
What is it that the world really needs? What should we be devoting our time, energy, and talent to, in order to make this a better world? Climate research? No. Renewable energy? No. Sustainable living? No. Gardening with native plants?...Posted on April 5, 2008 9:29 PM • 19 Comments •
Links for 3-4-2008
Janet Stemwedel has a lengthy, informative, interesting post on that eternally troublesome question: When in my graduate career should I have a baby? After reading it, I am put in mind of that New Yorker cartoon with the guy on...Posted on March 4, 2008 9:59 PM • 2 Comments •
Scientific Nail Polish
I have no time for a real entry, but if you haven't yet had your daily quota of sexist nonsense, check out these two links. Melissa McEwan parses the gender segregation at the Discovery Channel Store. (Thanks to Bora for...Posted on December 7, 2007 4:36 PM • 1 Comments •
"It's Not A Kitchen Gadget, It's A Tool!"
Ladies, all these years you've been using blenders and understood them as belonging to the category "kitchen gadget". But when he uses the manly new stainless steel RPM blender, it's not a kitchen gadget, it's a tool! Or so the...Posted on November 4, 2007 3:51 PM • 22 Comments •
