Summary Of Grzanka's Legal Case

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From Grzanka’s piece, it becomes obvious that the domain of feminist science and technology studies entails everything that is included under the umbrella of science and technology studies. Despite the fact that STS is currently largely untouched by those analyzing and evaluating through the feminist and intersectional fields of thought, there is much to be gained by studying the ways in which STS fields both produce knowledge and apply this knowledge in a feminist and intersectional light. Similar to [AUTHOR]’s use of the legal case between the black female employees and [GM?], Grzanka uses a multitude of examples to show the benefits of using many theories of evaluation simultaneously to fully understand the manner in which individuals are

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