Ebook: Female-Friendly Science: Applying Women's Studies Methods and Theories to Attract Students

During the past two decades, the feminist community has sharpened its
critique within the academy, extending women's studies to the scientific
disciplines. Development of feminist pedagogical techniques and of feminist
theory to include the consideration of race and class with gender have
provided increasingly sophisticated approaches to include women and people
of color. The pedagogy and theories developed for women's studies
have reached the point at which they may be successfully applied to problems
outside that field.
The purpose of this book is to explore the potential of feminist pedagogical
methods and theories of women's studies to attract women and people
of color to science. The exploration begins with an evaluation of the current
reports surrounding the crisis in American higher education. The crisis and
its correlated dearth of scientists and engineers is accurately depicted in the
reports. However, the back to basics solutions suggested by their authors
are unlikely to attract the women and minorities needed to fill the shortage.