The gendered atom : reflections on the sexual psychology of science / Theodore Roszak ; foreword by...
The gendered atom : reflections on the sexual psychology of science / Theodore Roszak ; foreword by...
The gendered atom : reflections on the sexual psychology of science / Theodore Roszak ; foreword by Jane Goodall.
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Berkeley, Calif. ; [Great Britain] : Conari Press, c1999.
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T0390857
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English
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Physical content
xiv, 174 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents
Foreword / Jane Goodall -- 1. Frankenstein, Feminism, and the Fate of the Earth -- 2. The Nuclear Winter of 1816 -- 3. The Largest Scientific Machine in the World -- 4. The Psychology of the Quark -- 5. "The Power Is There" -- 6. Macho Science -- 7. The Rape of Nature -- 8. "The Corpse of My Dead Mo...
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Publisher
Berkeley, Calif. ; [Great Britain] : Conari Press, c1999.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
c1999.
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Summary
"Modern scientists, from the age of Galileo and Newton, have subjected nature - Mother Earth - to a typically masculine drive to control and exploit. Deftly drawing on insights from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - the classic tale of science gone mad - and from the new field of feminist psychology, the author shows how centuries of male domination ha...
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The gendered atom : reflections on the sexual psychology of science / Theodore Roszak ; foreword by Jane Goodall.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-174).
Transferred from N501/336.
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c1999.
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T0390857
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1573241717 :
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501
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991011938849702626
