@article{1409063,
      recid = {1409063},
      author = {Harding, Sandra G.},
      title = {The science question in feminism /},
      publisher = {Cornell University Press,},
      address = {Ithaca :},
      pages = {271 pages ;},
      year = {1986},
      abstract = {"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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1409063},
}