Whose science? Whose knowledge? : thinking from women's lives /

"With a book that is guaranteed to upset familiar assumptions about or ways of knowing, Sandra Harding again steps into the center of a thorn debate -- a debate about the nature of the scientific enterprise and of human knowledge itself. Vigorously and persuasively, she develops further the the...

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Hlavní autor: Harding, Sandra G. (Autor)
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1991.
Edice:The science question in feminism
On-line přístup:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1422906
Obsah:
  • Introduction: after the science question in feminism
  • Feminism confronts the sciences: reform and transformation
  • How the women's movement benefits science: two views
  • Why "physics" is a bad model for physics
  • What is feminist epistemology?
  • "Strong objectivity" and socially situated knowledge
  • Feminist epistemology in and after the Enlightenment
  • " ... and race"? toward the science question in global feminisms
  • Common histories, common destinies: science in the first and third worlds
  • Thinking from the perspective of lesbian lives
  • Reinventing ourselves as other: more new agents of history and knowledge
  • Conclusion: what is feminist science?