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2005 Feminism(s) and Rhetoric(s) Presentation
New Issues in Diversity for Scientific & Technical Communication
This paper begins with a review of important feminist work in scientific and technical communication. I survey scholarship that has refuted the myth of scientific objectivity and proposed that the field had much to learn from gender studies (Lay 1992). I describe historiographical research that has served as a powerful corrective to the omission of women's contributions to technical, scientific, and medical achievements (Tebeaux 1997, Durak 1997, and Wells 2001). And I summarize pedagogical work on gender issues in the technical communication classroom practices that have resisted the rationalist and objectivist tradition of technical communication (Brasseur 1993). The paper concludes by pointing out the absence of work on ethnicity and culture in this field and proposing feminist approaches to address these gaps.