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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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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...
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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...
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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.
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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.
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Category: Zuska's Outreach Project For D00dly D00ds
Yes, I am speaking of tit-ogling.
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Category: Zuska's Outreach Project For D00dly D00ds
As has been noted, the recent edition of The Gender Knot has been substantially revised and reorganized, and I have been working off a 1997 edition, which is bound to cause some confusion for those of you reading the new...
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Category: Zuska's Outreach Project For D00dly D00ds
Welcome to our discussion of The Gender Knot by Allan Johnson. This is the first post in the discussion series. We will be discussing Chapter 1 "Where Are We?" You can find all posts connected to this discussion here. I...
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I promised you the first post on The Gender Knot today, and I still plan to get it up today if at all possible. My plan had been to work on it Monday and Tuesday but most of those days...
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I'm thinking that maybe we need to spend a little more time talking to/with/for the d00dly d00ds.
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