Research Catalog

Title

Women in futures research / edited by Margrit Eichler and Hilda Scott.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Pergamon Press, 1982.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Eichler, Margrit
• Scott, Hilda, 1915-

Description

vii, 117 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

Collection of articles on women's role in futures social research - discusses social theory and social policy trends, changing social role, political participation, social participation, labour market segmentation, women researcher attitudes on disarmament, national defence, social structure and technological change, importance of feminist research for a future based on equal opportunity, etc. ILO mentioned. References.

Subjects

• referencia
• référence bibliographique
• reference
• Women social scientists
• Women in the professions
• Social prediction
• Forecasting

Genre/Form

• reference.
• référence bibliographique.
• referencia.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Good theory or just theory? : toward a feminist philosophy of social science / Thelma McCormack -- Shaping futures for women / Freda L. Paltiel -- Perspectives of women researchers on disarmament, national security, and world order / Elise Boulding -- Women and science / Anne Fausto-Sterling -- Science fiction as desirable feminist scenarios / Margrit Eichler -- A feminist perspective on technology and the future / Joan A. Rothschild -- Toward a rediscovery of "feminine" principles in architecture and planning / Margrit I. Kennedy -- The future of work / James Robertson -- Women as capturers of social change / Eleonora Masini -- A five-dimensional model for change / Berit Ås.

ISBN

0080281001

LCCN

^^^81083021^

OCLC

• 8549832
• SCSB-10548696

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library