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Feminist Cultural Studies Of Science And Technology Challenges The Assumption That Science Is Simply What Scientists Do, Say, Or Write: It Shows The Multiple And Dispersed Makings Of Science And Technology In Everyday Life And Popular Culture. I Woke Up One Morning And Discovered That I Was Doing Feminist Cultural Studies Of Science And Technology -- Feminist Cultural Studies Of Science And Technology: Roots And Routes -- Making Heroes -- Newton As National Hero -- Making Twentieth-century Scientific Heroes -- Telling Stories -- New Reproductive Technologies: Stories Of Dreams And Broken Promises -- Telling Tales Of Reproduction And Technoscience -- Witnessing Spectacle -- National And International Spectacle: Gulf War I -- Techno-tourism In Florida: American Dreams, Technology And Feminism -- Conclusion. Maureen Mcneil. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [166]-181) And Index.