| Kommentar |
How has the rise of modern scientific discourses, shape and practice of medicine and technological developments produced knowledge of gender and confirmed or challenged societal understandings of gender? And in turn, how have societal and cultural assumptions about gender shaped science, medicine and technology? In the course of the seminar, we will look at selected key issues in the way in which gender as a category of knowledge (and practice) played a vital role in science, medicine and technology since the early modern period in the wider European context. Case studies will include, for example, the impact of reproductive technologies, the rise and meaning of sexology, issues of race and bodies on display, professionalization of medical disciplines, and anatomy. The aim of the seminar is that students will gain an in-depth knowledge of a range of historiographical work and interdisciplinary approaches of gender in science, medicine and technology scholarship. Special emphasis will be placed on offering room for reflecting on methodologies, interpretations and use of sources by researchers, thereby allowing students to acquire the ability to think critically about what methodologies are best suited to their own research study. The seminar will be run as a workshop at which students will be expected to have structured input from preparatory reading, their own working groups, and provision of short presentation. |
| Literatur |
Angela Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck and Londa Schiebinger eds (2001) Feminism in Twentieth Century Science, Technology and Medicine. Chicago: Chicago University Press. M. Fehrer, R. Naddaff and N. Tazi (eds) (1989) Fragments for the History of the Human Body: Parts One, Two, Three. New York. Schiebinger, Londa (1989) The Mind has no Sex? Women and the Origins of Modern Science. Harvard: Harvard University Press. Rebecca Skloot (2010) The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Random House. A full reading list will be supplied at the first meeting. |
