Isis Current Bibliography 2006, Vol. 97 - History of Science Society

14 28. Science & religion
26. SCIENCE AND RACE; SCIENCE AND
ETHNICITY
244. BRACE, C. Loring. “Race” Is a Four-Letter
Word: The Genesis of the Concept. (x + 326 pp.; ill.;
bibl.; index.) New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005.
ISBN: 019517352X.
On the history of the concept, mostly in America, from
ancient times through the beginning of the 21st century.
245. JACKSON, John P., Jr., and Nadine M. WEI-
DMAN. Race, Racism, and Science: Social Impact
and Interaction. Science and Society. (xv + 403 pp.;
ill.; bibl.; index.) Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO, 2004.
ISBN: 1851094482.
Focuses on the sciences of race from 1800 to the present.
246. JEROME, Fred, and Rodger TAYLOR. Einstein
on Race and Racism. (206 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.)
New Brunswick: Rutgers Univ. Press, 2005. ISBN:
0813536170.
Discusses Enstein’s activities on behalf of African American
political movements.
247. SCHILLER, Nina Glick. “Blood and Belonging:
Long-Distance Nationalism and the World Beyond.”
In Complexities, edited by Susan MCKINNON and
Sydel SILVERMAN (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press,
2005), 289–312.
248. SKINNER, David. “Racialized Futures: Biologism
and the Changing Politics of Identity.” Soc.
Stud. Sci. 36 (2006): 459–488.
Explores the changing role of science in public discourse on
race and racism. (from the abstract)
27. SCIENCE AND GENDER
249. BENNEWITZ, Nadja, and Gaby FRANGER.
(Eds.) “Die Erlangischen Mädchen sind recht schön
und artig...”: Ein Erlanger Frauengeschichtsbuch.
(285 pp.; ill.) Cadolzburg: ars vivendi Verlag, 2002.
ISBN: 3897163683.
Covers the period from 1686 to the end of the 20th century.
250. CRAWFORD, Katherine. “Privilege, Possibility,
and Perversion: Rethinking the Study of Early Modern
Sexuality.” J. Mod. Hist. 78 (2006): 412–433.
251. DELAMONT, Sara. “Lives of the Great Women
Scientists: The Never Ending Story?” Soc. Stud. Sci.
35 (2005): 491–496.
Essay review of Nathaniel C. COMFORT, Tangled Field
(2001); Kathryn A NEELEY, Mary Somerville (2001); Elga
R. WASSERMAN, The Door in the Dream (2000); WHALEY
[ref. 255].
252. FOX, Mary Frank. “Gender, Family Characteristics,
and Publication Productivity among Scientists.”
Soc. Stud. Sci. 35 (2005): 131–150.
253. REIS, Elizabeth. “Impossible Hermaphrodites:
Intersex in America, 1620–1960.” J. Amer. Hist. 92
(2005): 411–441.
254. SCHARFF, Virginia. (Ed.) Seeing Nature
through Gender. (xxii + 345 pp.; ill.; bibl.)
Lawrence, Kan.: Univ. Press of Kansas, 2003. ISBN:
070061284X.
SCHARFF [ref. 442]; Paige RAIBMON, “Naturalizing Power:
Land and Sexual Violence along William Byrd’s Dividing
Line,” 20-39; Peter BOAG, “Thinking Like Mount Rushmore:
Sexuality and Gender in the Republican Landscape,”
40-62; Mark TEBEAU, “Scaling New Heights: Heroic Firemen,
Gender, and the Urban Environment, 1875-1900,”
63-79; SIMON [ref. 3006]; HAZLETT [ref. 3569]; Nancy
LANGSTON, “Gender Transformed: Endocrine Disruptors in
the Environment,” 129-168; Douglas C. SACKMAN, “Putting
Gender on the Table: Food and the Family Life of Nature,”
169-193; Annie Gilbert COLEMAN, “From Snow Bunnies to
Shred Betties: Gender, Consumption, and the Skiing Landscape,”
194-220; Amy GREEN, “ ‘She Touched Fifty Million
Lives’: Gene Stratton-Porter and Nature Conservation,” 221-
241; Catherine KLEINER, “Nature’s Lovers: The Erotics of
Lesbian Land Communities in Oregon, 1974–1984,” 242-
262; Katherine JENSEN, “Saving Centennial Valley: Land,
Gender, and Community in the Northern Black Hills,” 263-
281; Giovanna DI CHIRO, “Steps to an Ecology of Justice:
Women’s Environmental Networks across the Santa Cruz
River Watershed,” 282-320. Reviews: [ref. R805]
255. WHALEY, Leigh Ann. Women’s History as
Scientists: A Guide to the Debates. (xvi + 252 pp.;
ill.; bibl.; index.) Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO,
2003. ISBN: 1576072304.
Reviews: [ref. 251]
28. SCIENCE AND RELIGION
256. CANTOR, Geoffrey. Quakers, Jews, and Science:
Religious Responses to Modernity and the
Sciences in Britain, 1650–1900. (xi + 420 pp.; ill.;
bibl.; index.) New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005.
ISBN: 0199276684.
257. DALY, John Lawrence. “John Macmurray’s
Philosophy of Science, Religion, and the Person.”
Diss. Abstr. Int. A 65/04 (2004): 1394.
Dissertation at the University of Chicago, 2001. Adviser:
Browning, Don. UMI pub. no. 9997158. 201 pp.
258. DAVIS, Edward B. “Appreciating a Scientist-
Theologian: Some Remarks on the Work of John
Polkinghorne.” Zygon 35 (2000): 971–976.
259. DAVIS, Edward B. “Is There a Christian History
of Science?” In Scholarship and Christian Faith,
edited by Douglas JACOBSEN and Rhonda Hustedt
JACOBSEN (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2004),
63–75.
260. GERACI, Robert M. “The Cultural History of
Religions and the Ethics of Progress: Building the
Human in 20th-Century Religion, Science and Art.”
Diss. Abstr. Int. A 66/08 (2006): 2964.
Dissertation at the University of California, Santa Barbara,
2005. Adviser: Hecht, Richard. UMI pub. no. 3186823. 294
pp.
261. HARRIS, J. “Weapons of Mass Destruction.”
Part of a special issue: Focus on Science and Religion.
Interdiscipl. Sci. Rev. 28 (2003): 234–236.
262. HAUGHT, John F. Deeper than Darwin: The
Prospect for Religion in the Age of Evolution. (xvi
+ 214 pp.; bibl.; index.) Boulder, Colo.: Westview
Press, 2003. ISBN: 0813365902.