mid-term review

EWS 425
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Mid-Term Review

1. What are the differences between science and technology?

2. What is gender socialization? What are the obstacles girls and women have to face in science and engineering programs?

3. What is the "Takeover Theory?" Identify the other theories that we have studied to date.

4. What is Karl Marx's theory of class struggle and how does it apply to gender contestation?

5. What is "Inventive Capability?" How may gender socialization affect inventive abilities?

6. What is the theory regarding inventions and users?

7. What obstacles did women face historically regarding a)inventing b) patenting c) marketing their inventions?

8. Who is the author of your text book?

9. How many categories of inventions are there on the class web site on women inventors?

10. What category or categories are absent from the course web site on women inventors?

11. Who are the following and what did they invent?

Rebecca Webb Carranza Mary Pennington Laura Scudder Magdalena Villaruz

Rose Totino Mary Phelps Jacobs Catharine Greene

Lillian Moller Gilbreth Helen Blanchard Sarah Goode Marion Donovan

12.Who was Rosalind Franklin and what was the nature and significance of her work? See: http://www.accessexcellence.org/AB/BC/Rosalind_Franklin.html

What technique did Franklin develop to elucidate the structure of DNA?

What are some of the theories regarding gender, science and technology can you see are operative in the case of Rosalind Franklin? (e.g. The Takeover Theory etc.)

13.

The Saqqara Bird
The Baghdad Battery
Damascus Steel
The Pyramids of Egypt
The Antikythera
Gunpowder
Printing Press
The Compass
Nazca Lines and Hot Air Balloons
Non Madol

14. What are Food Politics? What are the areas of Food Politics?

15. Explain the paradox between the popuarity of cooking shows and the actual way society prepares food and our habits of eating. To what extent does technology influence this paradox?

16. Identify the different technological advancements and societal changes with the foods invented over time (see the food time line at http://www.foodtimeline.org/) Example: Food preservation techniques in pre-refrigeration times; the women's movement and frozen foods etc.