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Author:

Brighton Women & Science Group.

Title:

Alice through the microscope : the power of science over women's lives / by the Brighton Women & Science Group ; edited by Lynda Birke ... [et al.].

Publisher:

Virago,

Copyright Date:

1980

Description:

[7], 306 p. : ill., tables ; 21 cm.

Subject:

Women--Social conditions.
Science--Social aspects.
Femininity.

Other Authors:

Birke, Lynda I. A.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Appendix : Some biological information. The masculine face of science / Ruth Wallsgrove -- Psychological sex differences / Janet Sayers -- Sociobiology : so what? / Deirdre Janson-Smith -- Part two. Science and women's bodies -- The tyrannical womb : menstruation and menopause / Lynda Birke and Sandy Best -- From zero to infinity : scientific views of lesbians / Lynda Birke -- 'Sickness is a woman's business?' : reflections on the attribution of illness / Hilary Standing -- The obsessive orgasm : science, sex and female sexuality /Wendy Faulkner -- Part three. Technological control -- Technology in the lying-in room / The Brighton Women and Science Group -- Contraception : the growth of a technology / Vivien Walsh -- Reproductive engineering : the final solution? / Jalna Hanmer and Pat Allen -- The masculine face of science / Ruth Wallsgrove -- Appendix : Some biological information.

ISBN:

9780860680796 (pbk.)
0860680797 (pbk.)
9780860680789
0860680789

OCLC:

(OCoLC)8219779

LCCN:

81470296

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)