The science question in feminism / Sandra Harding.
1986
HQ1397 .H28 1986 (Mapit)
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Title
The science question in feminism / Sandra Harding.
Author
Harding, Sandra G.
ISBN
0801493633 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780801493638 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0801418801 (hard)
9780801418808 (hard)
0335153607 (Open University Press)
9780335153602 (Open University Press)
0335153593 (pbk.) (Open University Press)
9780335153596 (pbk.) (Open University Press)
9780801493638 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0801418801 (hard)
9780801418808 (hard)
0335153607 (Open University Press)
9780335153602 (Open University Press)
0335153593 (pbk.) (Open University Press)
9780335153596 (pbk.) (Open University Press)
Imprint
Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1986.
Language
English
Description
271 pages ; 23 cm
Other Standard Identifiers
2027/heb.32980 hdl
Call Number
HQ1397 .H28 1986
Alternate Call Number
02.60
3,6
305.435
3,6
305.435
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.4/2
Summary
"Can science, steeped in Western, masculine, bourgeois endeavors, nevertheless be used for emancipatory ends? In this major contribution to the debate over the role gender plays in the scientific enterprise, Sandra Harding pursues that question, challenging the intellectual and social foundations of scientific thought. Harding provides the first comprehensive and critical survey of the feminist science critiques, and examines inquiries into the androcentricism that has endured since the birth of modern science. Harding critiques three epistemological approaches: feminist empiricism, which identifies only bad science as the problem; the feminist standpoint, which holds that women's social experience provides a unique starting point for discovering masculine bias in science; and feminist postmodernism, which disputes the most basic scientific assumptions. She points out the tensions among these stances and the inadequate concepts that inform their analyses, yet maintains that the critical discourse they foster is vital to the quest for a science informed by emancipatory morals and politics."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 252-261) and index.
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Table of Contents
Preface
- 1. From woman question in science to the science question in feminism
- 2. Gender and science: two problematic concepts
- 3. The social structure of science: complaints and disorders
- 4. Androcentrism in biology and social science
- 5. Natural resources: gaining moral approval for scientific genders and genderdized sciences
- 6. From feminist empiricism to feminist standpoint epistemologies
- 7. Other 'others' and fractures identities: issues for epistemologies
- 8. 'The birth of modern science' as a text: internalist and externalist stories
- 9. Problems with post-Kuhnian stories
- 10. Valuable tensions and a new 'Unity of science.'
- 1. From woman question in science to the science question in feminism
- 2. Gender and science: two problematic concepts
- 3. The social structure of science: complaints and disorders
- 4. Androcentrism in biology and social science
- 5. Natural resources: gaining moral approval for scientific genders and genderdized sciences
- 6. From feminist empiricism to feminist standpoint epistemologies
- 7. Other 'others' and fractures identities: issues for epistemologies
- 8. 'The birth of modern science' as a text: internalist and externalist stories
- 9. Problems with post-Kuhnian stories
- 10. Valuable tensions and a new 'Unity of science.'