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Braun, L., Fausto-Sterling, A., Fullwiley, D., Hammonds, E. M., Nelson A., et al. "Racial Categories in Medical Practice: How Useful Are They?" PLoS Med 4, no. 9 (2007): e271.

Buy at Amazon Butler, Octavia E. Parable of the Sower. New York, NY: Grand Central Publishing, 2000. ISBN: 9780446675505.

Centro de Estudos Sociais. Identifying Trends in European Medical Space: Contribution of European Social and Human Sciences. Coimbra, Portugal: Centro de Estudos Sociais, 2005.

Cohn, Carol. "Sex and Death in the Rational World of Defense Intellectuals." Signs 12, no. 4 (1987): 687-718.

Fujimura, Joan H., Troy Duster, and Ramya Rajagopalan. "Introduction: Race, Genetics, and Disease. Social Studies of Science 38, no. 5 (2008, 2009).

Harvey, D. "Militant Particularism and Global Ambition: The Conceptual Politics of Place, Space, and Environment in the Work of Raymond Williams." Social Text 42 (2005): 69-98.

Paper Tiger TV. "Donna Haraway Reads National Geographic on Primates." New York: Paper Tiger TV, 1989.

Werskey, Gary. "The Marxist Critique of Capitalist Science: A History in Three Movements?" (2007).

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Abir-Am, Pnina G. "Women in Modern Scientific Research: A Historical View." Unesco World Science Report, Beijing, 1996.

Adams, Elizabeth R., and G. W. Burnett. "Scientific Vocabulary Divergence Among Female Primatologists Working in East Africa." Social Studies of Science 21, no. 3 (1991): 547-560.

Buy at Amazon Cartwright, Lisa. "Community and the Public Body in Breast Cancer Media Activism. In Wild Science: Reading Feminism, Medicine, and the Media. Edited by Marchessault. London, UK: Routledge, 2000. ISBN: 9780415205316.

Casper, Monica J. "Reframing and Grounding Nonhuman Agency." American Behavioral Scientist 37, no. 6 (1994): 839-856.

Buy at Amazon Clarke, Adele. "A Social Worlds Research Adventure: The Case of Reproductive Science." In Grounded Theory in Practice. Edited by Anselm Strauss and Juliet Corbin. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1997, pp. 63-94. ISBN: 9780761907480.

Dugdale, Ann. "Keller's Degendered Science: Notes and Discussion." Thesis Eleven 21 (1988): 117-128.

Epstein, Steven. "Bodily Differences and Collective Identities: The Politics of Gender and Race in Biomedical Research in the United States." Body and Society 10, nos. 2-3 (2004): 183-203.

Fausto-Sterling, Anne. "Society Writes Biology/Biology Constructs Gender." Daedalus 116, no. 4 (1987): 61-76.

———. "Life in the XY Corral." Women's Studies International Forum 12, no. 3 (1989): 319-331.

Buy at Amazon ———. Sexing the Body: Gender, Politics and the Construction of Sexuality. New York, NY: Basic Books, 2000. ISBN: 9780465077144.

Buy at Amazon ———. "The Problem with Sex/Gender and Nature/Nurture." Debating Biology: Reflections on Medicine, Health and Medicine and Society. Edited by Simon J. Wiliams, Lynda Birke, and Gillian A. Bendelow. New York, NY: Routledge, 2003, pp. 123-132. ISBN: 9780415279024. [Preview the book in Google Books.]

Buy at Amazon Fuller, Steve. Thomas Kuhn: A Philosophical History for Our Times. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780226268965.

Fullwiley, Duana. "Race and Genetics: Attempts to Define the Relationship." Biosocieties 2, no. 2 (2007): 221-237.

———. "The Molecularization of Race: Institutionalizing Human Difference in Pharmacogenetics." Practice Science as Culture 16, no. 1 (2007): 1-30.

Haraway, Donna J. "Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s." Socialist Review, 80 (1985): 65-107.

Buy at Amazon ———. Primate Visions: Gender, Race, and Nature in the World of Modern Sciences. New York, NY: Routledge, 1990. ISBN: 9780415902946.

Buy at Amazon ———. "The Promises of Monsters: A Regenerative Politics for Inappropriate/d Others." Cultural Studies. Edited by Lawrence Grossberg, Cary Nelson and Paula A. Treichler. New York, NY: Routledge, 1991, pp. 295-337. ISBN: 9780415903455.

———. "A Game of Cat's Cradle: Science Studies, Feminist Theory, Cultural Studies." Configurations 2, no. 1 (1994): 59-71.

———. "Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective." Feminist Studies 14, no. 3 (1988): 575-599.

Buy at Amazon Harding, Sandra. Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? Thinking From Women's Lives. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1991. ISBN: 9780801497469.

Jackson, Cecile. "Radical Environmental Myths: A Gender Perspective." New Left Review 210 (1995): 124-142.

Jenson, Jennifer., Suzanne de Castell, and Mary Bryson. "'Girl talk': Gender, Equity, and Identity Discourses in a School-Based Computer Culture." Women's Studies International Forum 26, no. 6 (2003): 561-573. (This resource may not render correctly in a screen reader.PDF)

Buy at Amazon Jordanova, Ludmilla J. "Naturalizing the Family: Literature and the Bio-Medical Sciences in the Late Eighteenth Century." Languages of Nature: Critical Essays on Science and Literature. London, UK: Free Association Books, 1986, pp. 86-116. ISBN: 9780813511948.

Keller, Evelyn Fox. "Feminist Perspectives on Science Studies." Science, Technology, & Human Value 13 (1988): 235-249.

———. "Just What is So Difficult About the Concept of Gender as a Social Category?" Social Studies of Science 19 (1989): 721-724.

Buy at Amazon ———. " Making a Difference: Feminist Movement and Feminist Critiques of Science." In Feminism in Twentieth-Century Science, Technology, and Medicine. Edited by Angela N. H. Creager, Elizabeth Lunbeck, and Londa Schiebinger. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2001, pp. 98-109. ISBN: 9780226120249.

Kohlstedt, Sally Gregory, and Helen Longino. Women, Gender, and Science: New Directions. Osiris, Vol. 12. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1997.

Krauss, Celene. "Women and Toxic Waste Protests: Race, Class and Gender as Resources of Resistance." Qualitative Sociology 16, no. 3 (1993): 247-262.

Buy at Amazon Laslett, Barbara, Sally Gregory Kohlstedt, Helen Longino, and Evelynn Hammonds. Gender and Scientific Authority. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press Journals, 1996. ISBN: 9780226469174.

Longino, Helen E., and Kathleen Lennon. "Feminist Epistemology as a Local Epistemology." The Aristotelian Society 71, no. 1 (2003): 19-35.

Buy at Amazon Love, Rosaleen. The Total Devotion Machine and Other Stories. London, UK: The Women's Press, 1991. ISBN: 9780704341883.

Buy at Amazon Marchessault, J., and K. Sawchuk. Wild Science: Reading Feminism, Medicine, and the Media. London, UK: Routledge, 2000. ISBN: 9780415204316.

Montoya, Michael J. "Bioethnic Conscription: Genes, Race and Mexicana/o Ethnicity in Diabetes Research." Cultural Anthropology 22, no. 1 (2007): 94-128.

Buy at Amazon Rapp, Rayna. "Risky Business: Genetic Counseling in a Shifting World." In Articulating Hidden Histories. Edited by Rayna Rapp and Jane Schneider. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1995, pp. 175-189. ISBN: 9780520085824.

Richards, Evelleen, and John Schuster. "The Feminine Method as Myth and Accounting Resource: A Challenge to Gender Studies and Social Studies of Science." Social Studies of Science 19, no. 4 (1989): 697-720.

Rocheleau, Diane E. "Gender, Ecology and the Science of Survival: Stories and Lessons from Kenya." Agriculture and Human Values 8, nos. 1-2 (1991): 156-165.

Buy at Amazon Schiebinger, Londa. Nature's Body: Gender in the Making of Modern Science. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004. ISBN: 9780813535319.

Buy at Amazon ———. Has Feminism Changed Science. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2001. ISBN: 9780674005440.

———. "Introduction: Feminism Inside the Sciences." Signs 28, no. 3 (2003): 859-866.

Sismondo, Sergio. "Science and Technology Studies and an Engaged Program." In The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies. Edited by Edward J. Hackett Olga Amsterdamska, Michael Lynch, and Judy Wajcman. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007, pp. 13-31.

Buy at Amazon Traweek, Sharon. "Bodies of Evidence: Law and Order, Sexy Machines, and the Erotics of Fieldwork Among Physicists. In Choreographing History. Edited by Susan Leigh Foster. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1995. ISBN: 9780253209351.

———. "Worldly Diffractions: Feminist and Cultural Studies of Science, Technology, and Medicine." (Presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Los Angeles, August 1994).

Buy at Amazon ———. "When Eliza Doolittle Studies 'enry 'iggins." In Technoscience and Cyberculture. Edited by Stanley Aronowitz, Barbara Martinsonns and Michael Menser. New York, NY: Routledge, 1995. 37-55. ISBN: 9780415911764.

Buy at Amazon Tsing, Anna Lowenhaupt. "Environmentalism: Transitions as Translations. In Transitions, Environments, Translations: The Meanings of Feminism in Contemporary Politics. Edited by Joan W. Scott. New York, NY: Routledge, 1997, pp. 253-272. ISBN: 9780415915403.

Wylie, A., and Okruhlik. "Philosophical Feminism: A Bibliographic Guide to Critiques of Science." Resources for Feminist Research 19, no. 2 (1990): 2-36.