Omschrijving
Invites students to critically examine the use of and assumptions about sex and gender while studying the various areas in which gender analysis is conducted. The reader features a collection of diverse articles that approach the study of gender, sex, and gender discrimination from a variety of perspectives.
Christine V. Wood is a research assistant professor of medical social sciences within the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Trained in the sociology of knowledge and science, she has written on the organizational cultures of biomedicine and the institutionalization of gender studies in the United States. As a medical sociologist, she is currently working on a federally funded, qualitative longitudinal study of career opportunities among biomedical scientists, a project which addresses the persistent lack of racial and gender diversity in the upper realms of academic science.