The Trouble with Normal

Postwar Youth and the Making of Heterosexuality

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ID3983416
AuthorsLiz Millward (0000-0003-2702-3950)
Year1999
Volume43
Pages244
Publication date1999-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeREVIEW
Review ofThe Trouble with Normal: Postwar Youth and the Making of Heterosexuality, Mary Louise Adams, 1997
VenueLabour / Le Travail (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0700-3862 • E-ISSN: 1911-4842
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/25148955
OpenAlexW2312812142
LanguageEN

questioned; the problem is always women, not science. But is it really? The authors based their analysis on interviews with forty adult British women. As the number indicates, the interviews were not intended to be quantitative nor generalizable. The strength of their research is in their careful reading of the collected words and attentively made bridges between them and other empirical studies and theories. Maintaining easy accessibility, the book successfully invokes questions on such broad issues as adult education, women and science education, and feminist epistemology. Both books examine the relationship between women and science by revealing the problems of science (and not women). In the attempts to be inclusive to women, ironically I felt excluded. I could not locate myself in either of the arguments as a woman who enjoys science and appreciates womanhood. Although both books ask good questions about women's relationship to science, a better question to begin might be whether there is a relationship between women and science. Too much emphasis on women's collective experience could paradoxically exclude some women. Relationships between women and science may be more diverse, dynamic, and intertwined than these books indicate

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