Science and Social Inequality : Feminist and Postcolonial Issues /
"In Science and Social Inequality, Sandra Harding makes the provocative argument that the philosophy and practices of today's Western science, contrary to its Enlightenment mission, work to insure that more science will only worsen existing gaps between the best and worst off around the wo...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Sprog: | engelsk |
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Urbana :
University of Illinois Press,
2006.
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| Serier: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Indholdsfortegnelse:
- Introduction : science and inequality
- The social world of scientific research
- Thinking about race and science
- Seeing ourselves as others see us : postcolonial science studies
- With both eyes open : a world of sciences
- Northern feminist science studies : new challenges and opportunities
- Discriminatory epistemologies and philosophies of science
- Feminist science and technology studies at the periphery of the enlightenment
- Truth, relativism, and science's political unconscious
- The political unconscious of Western science
- Are truth claims in science dysfunctional?
- Does the threat of relativism deserve a panic?