OVERVIEW OF FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES ON THE IDEOLOGY OF SCIENCE

As a body of feminist scholarship from the past 2 decades has persuasi vely shown, we can interpret science as being gendered as a masculine domain in many ways. The purpose of this essay is to show, using histo rical and contemporary examples, that many of these feminist analyses fit together into a compelling perspective on the ideology of science. The essay addresses how ideology affects who pursues careers in scien ce. The implications of the gendering of science for science practice are also discussed. (C) 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.