Feminist scholars have long recognized the importance of addressing science in both theory and practice. This book begins with "gender" as its theoretical focus and the substantive focus raises questions on scientific authority.

Introduction by the Editors The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought Patricia Hill Collins The Postmodernist Turn in Anthropology: Cautions from a Feminist Perspective Frances E. Mascia-Lees, Patricia Sharpe, Colleen Ballerino Cohen. Knowers, Knowing, Known: Feminist Theory and Claims of Truth Mary E. Hawkesworth Political Arithmetic: The Nineteenth-Century Australian Census and the Construction of the Dependent Woman Desley Deacon Women's Voices in Nineteenth-Century Medical Discourse: A Step toward Deconstructing Science Nancy M. Theriot Women and Computers: An Introduction Ruth Perry, Lisa Greber. Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals Carol Cohn The Trials of Alice Mitchell: Sensationalism, Sexology, and the Lesbian Subject in Turn-of-the-Century America Lisa Duggan Looking and Listening: The Construction of Clinical Knowledge in Charcot and Freud Daphne de Marneffe Field Dependence Research: A Historical Analysis of a Psychological Construct Janice Haaken Meta-Analysis and the Psychology of Gender Differences Janet Shibley Hyde The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles Emily Martin The Medical Construction of Gender: Case Management of Intersexed Infants Suzanne J. Kessler Baboons with Briefcases: Feminism, Functionalism, and Sociobiology in the Evolution of Primate Gender Susan Sperling Engendering Reproductive Policy and Practice in Peasant China: For a Feminist Demography of Reproduction Susan Greenhalgh, Jiali Li. About the Contributors Index