Exploring the uncharted depths of the scientific soul, historian Theodore Roszak finds a maelstrom of repressed sexual prejudices and gender stereotypes beneath the scientist's calm, rational surface. He uses the multiple perspectives of history, literary commentary, science, religion, psychology and travel to present a feminist critique of male-dominated science. Pondering the many meanings of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein , he finds signs of macho science where human arrogance and domination prevail. Roszak presents an attack on scientists who continue to emphasize separation in a world where everything in nature is characterized by organization, structure and relationship. Instead, he imagines a gender-free science that moves beyond the atomistic, male-dominated paradigm to emphasize feeling, compassion and nurture.
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Green Pharmacy Books
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9781870098915
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Author
Theodore Roszak
Publication Name
The Gendered Atom: the Sexual Psychology of Science