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'This is a real heavyweight work of high academic quality. It, no doubt, marks a milestone in the development of feminist theory globally.' Scientists for Global Responsibility Newsletter
'Remarkable for its clarity in a field where recent literature has often been barely comprehensible - particularly to students.' Times Higher Education Supplement
'Immensely readable and lively. It was a constant delight to read and Hilary Rose managed to sustain the reader's interest throughout every page ... the book is important as well as engaging.' Sociology
'This is a richly informed interdisciplinary work which anyone interested in science needs to read.' Women's Philosophy Review
' 'In characteristically challenging and exciting style Hilary Rose has produced, in Love, Power and Knowledge, a 'tour de force' of feminist sociological critique of the social and biological sciences ... enormously wide ranging ... a thoroughly academic and scholarly journey demonstrating all that is exciting about rigorous but politically informed scholarship.' Contemporary Politics
1. Introduction: Is a Feminist Science Possible?.
2. Thinking From Caring:.
Feminism's Construction of a Responsible Rationality.
3. Feminism and the Academy:.
Success and Incorporation.
4. Listening to Each Other:.
Feminist Voices in the Theory of Scientific Knowledge.
5. Gender at Work in the Production System of Science.
6. Joining the Procession:.
(Man)aging the Entry of Women into the Royal Society.
7. Nine Decades, Nine Women, Ten Nobel Prizes:.
Gender Politics at the Apex of Science.
8. Feminism and the Genetic Turn: .
Challenging Reproductive Technoscience.
9. Dreaming the Future:.
Other Wor(l)ds.
Epilogue: Womens Work is Never Done.
Bibliography.
Index.
