Dr. Carolyn Huntoon was known as the mother hen to the women astronauts in Group VIII. In Ava’s post, she mentions how Huntoon advocated for the women and chose to make waves – something many previous women had avoided doing to lessen the backlash for them stepping outside of their prescribed gender roles and stereotypes…. (read more)
Setting: Macy’s break room. Floors are covered in red carpet, walls have a light pink paisley tapestry, and furniture is classy, but worn. The chairs are clustered around a table, which has some snacks thrown haphazardly on it – things like crackers and fruit. There are no windows to the outside, but some lockers on… (read more)
Poovey’s analyses the representation of Florence Nightingale as “joining what could be seen either as two apparently antithetical narratives of as the manifest and latent contents of the same narrative by reworking or repressing their discordant features” (172). This description of a powerful and notable woman in a male/technology dominated industry reminded me very strongly… (read more)
Ava talked in her post about “androcentrism,” or the practice of placing the male experience in the center of one’s world view and history. This affected how men sought to cure hysteria (believing marriage with a man to be the only good solution) but it also affected all the other scientific aspects. The reading mentioned… (read more)
The “Cult of Masculinity in the Age of Heroic Science,” I was fascinated by Jardins’s secondary explanation for the lack of women’s visibility in science. We’ve already discussed women being more accepted in “softer” sciences and dismissing women’s accomplishments as inherent to their organized and patient nature but taking a closer look at the masculine… (read more)
For my creative project, I wanted to look at how mothers are treated in their professional lives. Women who try to have it all often face recriminations for bringing work into their home or for not being in their children’s life enough. However, they are also punished for trying to incorporate their home life into… (read more)
In Ava’s post, she says “She perfectly balanced being a mother, truly loving and acknowledging her many children, while simultaneously working and helping change factories and employee’s rights,” which makes me think of the “having it all” discourse that many professional women are subjected to. The Atlantic recently published an article titled “Why Women Still Can’t… (read more)
Julia Storch DIG340 Professor Annelise Shrout February 19th, 2016 Women, Well; An Analysis of Gender Expectations and Automobile Technology The GPS, or Global Positioning System, was originally developed by the military. Work with NASA and the DOD eventually lead to the creation of a DNSS (Defense Navigation Satellite System)… (read more)
While reading “A Calculus of Suffering,” I was frequently reminded of our discussion from Tuesday’s class and the reading for it. Obviously a lot of major themes resonated through both, as the readings from both days handled women breaking into a scientific/technological field which caused men to form assumptions about the capabilities of female scientists…. (read more)
Ava addresses in her post how important language was to women in the field of science, and it shaped the world’s perception of them. Yet they had the job of popularizing science – educating the masses with their words. This plays back into the idea that women are educators, not researchers. The men didn’t have… (read more)
