Sharon Traweek
Sharon Traweek | |
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Born | Sharon Jean Traweek |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | University of California at Santa Cruz |
Influences | Robert O. Paxton, Vartan Gregorian, Hayden White and Gregory Bateson |
Academic work | |
Main interests | Gender studies and history |
Notable works | Beamtimes and lifetimes: the world of high energy physicists |
Sharon Jean Traweek[1] is associate professor in the Department of Gender Studies and History at University of California, Los Angeles.
Her book Beamtimes and Lifetimes: The World of High Energy Physicists,[2] which explores the social structures of particle physicists, has been cited in a number of books relating to the sociology of science, in particular, Bruno Latour and Steve Woolgar's book "Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts",[3] and Sue V. Rosser's "The Science Glass Ceiling: Academic Women Scientists and the Struggle to Succeed".[4]
Daphne Patai and Noretta Koertge have criticized Beamtimes and Lifetimes as being illustrative of anti-scientific biases in feminism, for examples in Traweek's genital metaphorizing of scientific instruments at SLAC.[5]
Books
- Amara, Roy; Lipinski, Hubert; Spangler, Kathleen; Sharon Traweek (1978). Communication needs in computer modeling (Report). Menlo Park, California: Institute for the Future. Research Conducted for the Division of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, National Science Foundation. Published in Conference proceedings 1978 Winter Simulation Conference (WSC 1978). Pdf.
- Traweek, Sharon (1992). Beamtimes and lifetimes: the world of high energy physicists. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674044449.
- Traweek, Sharon; Reid, Roddey (2000). Doing science + culture. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9780415921121.
References
- ^ "Dissertation Information for Sharon Jean Traweek". MPACT: Indiana University, School of Library and Information Science. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
- ^ Traweek, Sharon (1992). Beamtimes and lifetimes: the world of high energy physicists. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674044449.
- ^ Latour, Bruno; Woolgar, Steve (1986) [1979], "Postscript to second edition (1986)", in Latour, Bruno; Woolgar, Steve (eds.), Laboratory life: the construction of scientific facts, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, pp. 273–286, ISBN 9780691094182.
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(help) Originally published 1979 in Los Angeles, by Sage Publications - ^ Rosser, Sue V. (2004), "Life in the lab", in Rosser, Sue V. (ed.), The science glass ceiling: academic women scientists and the struggle to succeed, New York, New York: Routledge, pp. 45–46, ISBN 9780415945134.
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(help) - ^ Daphne Patai and Noretta Koertge (2003) Professing Feminism: Education and Indoctrination in Women's Studies, Lexington Books.