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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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Category: Manifestoes
I'm telling you, the system works, they have figured out how to take the raw talent and produce skilled researchers. It's just that they only do it for the ones who look most like themselves.
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Category: Naming Experience
" 'They looked at us like we were not supposed to be scientists,' says one young African American girl, describing one openly hostile reaction she encountered in the classroom."
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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."
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Category: Burns My Shorts
See if you can figure out...the answer to the blog post question.
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Category: Manly Men
I'm not suggesting we baby them and spoon feed them every bit of information they need to have. Just sayin', I didn't come to my gloriously enlightened feminist state all on my own.
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Category: Naming Experience
Emily Monosson told me she feels her book was misrepresented in Meg Urry's review. I agreed to post here the contents of her email to me.
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Category: Geekalicious
Ironing is women's work. And women's work, we know, has nothing to do with engineering or technology. Irons are not technology; they are domestic appliances. Collect a bunch of them, though, and they start looking like technological art objects. Then...
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Category: Isn't It Ironic?
There is no conception of two women interacting with each other as colleagues, to exchange ideas, argue concepts, work out disagreements, in a discussion of issues of common concern that do not have men at the center.
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Category: Race Matters
I found out about both of these courtesy of the Chronicle Review Note Bene/New Books in Print feature. Both look extremely interesting....
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Category: Why Aren't You Reading This?
Via the Chronicle Review New Scholarly Books section: I haven't read either of these but both look good and I thought they would be of interest to readers of this blog. The first is Our Bodies, Our Crimes: The Policing...
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