Science and Sensibility: Gender and Scientific Enquiry, 1780-1945.
The types of questions that have been asked in the titles of articles on the subject of science in women's studies literature, a subject that has become known as "The Science Question in Feminism"(1) articulate the existence of a division between science and feminism. Science has not succumbed to the...

Inventing Women: Science, Technology and Gender.
The types of questions that have been asked in the titles of articles on the subject of science in women's studies literature, a subject that has become known as "The Science Question in Feminism"(1) articulate the existence of a division between science and feminism. Science has not succumbed to the...

Those liberal professors.
Byline: The Register-Guard A new study funded by the conservative Randolph Foundation confirms the obvious: College professors are politically to the left of most Americans. This will come as no surprise to anyone who lives in or near a university town, or who knows that employees of...

Social sciences and humanities in the International Polar Year 2007-2008: an integrating mission.
THE READERS OF ARCTIC ARE CERTAINLY FAMILIAR with the major new interdisciplinary initiative in polar research, the International Polar Year 2007-2008 (IPY 2007-08). IPY 2007-08 is envisioned as an intense international campaign of coordinated observations and analysis across the polar regions of the globe. It will be bipolar in...

Feminism Confronts Technology.
The types of questions that have been asked in the titles of articles on the subject of science in women's studies literature, a subject that has become known as "The Science Question in Feminism"(1) articulate the existence of a division between science and feminism. Science has not succumbed to the...

Feminism and the Technological Fix.
The types of questions that have been asked in the titles of articles on the subject of science in women's studies literature, a subject that has become known as "The Science Question in Feminism"(1) articulate the existence of a division between science and feminism. Science has not succumbed to the...

Fresh networks: science, literature, feminism, and cultural studies.
Herrnstein Smith, Barbara. 2006. Scandalous Knowledge: Science, Truth and the Human. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press. $74.95 hc, $21.95 sc. viii + 198 pp. Levine, George. 2006. Darwin Loves You: Natural Selection and the Re-Enchantment of the World. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. $29.95 hc. xxvii +304...

Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress.
Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress, edited by Lawrence E. Harrison and Samuel P. Huntington; Basic Books, 2000, US$35. FIRST, a little bit of autobiography. I assure you it will be apposite. When I entered the academic world in the sixties, I was under the impression...

While we're at it.
* So what is the name of the enemy? A lot of candidates have been proposed and employed in the last five years: Islamic fundamentalism, Islamofascism, Islamic totalitarianism, Islamism, terrorism, or simply extremism. Islamism, as distinguished from Islam, is used by many scholars, but it is a subtlety that...

Entrepreneurship, favourite subject of profs.
MUMBAI: Entrepreneurship is a subject B-school professors like to teach. Interestingly, that is also a career path that some professors are now starting to take. Last year Kellogg School of Business professor Bala Balachandran set up Great Lakes Institute of Management in Chennai. Now another academician is...