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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.

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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.

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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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Isn't Rape Really Just All About Sex?

Category: Apologists for the Oppressors

It's a floor wax. No, a dessert topping. But wait! It's BOTH!!!!! What does this have to do with understanding rape?

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Oil and the "Chance Fate of the Unfortunate Individual"

Category: Science Follies

It's all good! Till it's not.

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The Arts as a Healing Balm for Mansplaining's Psychic Ills

Category: Feminist Foremothers

Your joy need not begin and end with just knowing that the craptastic manifestations you've been subjected to are (1) not your fault, (2) part of a larger system of patriarchy, and (3) mocked by many, many, many women all over the place.

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"The Madame Curie Complex" Sample Chapter: Part Three "Women in the Wild: Changing the Culture of Western Science"

Category: Feminist Foremothers

"Leakey and the Trimates understood that their fate in the field depended on popular attention to them as iconic figures, though not necessarily as scientists. That they appeared in ways that were not only distorted but also nearly contradictory suggests yet again that consumers of their stories shared no consensus about what women in the field should represent."

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"The Madame Curie Complex" Sample Chapter: Part Two "Louis Leakey's 'Primitive' Feminism"

Category: Geekalicious

"Few women raised with the creature comforts of Western life would have surrendered to such unknowns. Their shared love of animals led the Trimates to water, but it was the charismatic Louis Leakey who convinced them to drink."

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"The Madame Curie Complex" Sample Chapter: Part One

Category: Feminist Foremothers

The book tells the stories of women scientists, from Marie Curie to Maria Mayer, who took enormous chances and made great discoveries in spite of, and at times because of, the resistance they faced in a male-dominated field. Des Jardins compares their stories with prominent male counterparts in an exploration of whether, and how, women research, collaborate, and come to different conclusions about the natural world.

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"The Myth of Black Disingenuity": Exploring the Intersection of African American History and the History of Technology

Category: Gendering Technology

To deconstruct this myth...we must look at how white Americans have constructed the "Yankee ingenuity" myth whereby technological expertise is intimately intertwined with American democratic ideals, masculine identity, and whiteness.

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I Cannot Tell A Lie - Hercules Is More Important Than An Apocryphal Cherry Tree

Category: Naming Experience

That is certainly a story they never told me about ol' George when I was in grade school! No sir, they just kept bringing out that cherry tree business.

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Musings on Listening to Skloot Talk About "Immortal Life" on Fresh Air

Category: What They're Saying

It raises some seriously interesting questions about the value of religious traditions and their meaning in a scientific community.

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Skloot, "Immortal Life" Featured on "Fresh Air" Today

Category: Announcements

Be sure to catch Fresh Air whenever it airs in your local market to day, or catch the podcast. Rebecca Skloot is on today, talking about her book, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, which, as I hope you know,...

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