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...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Ithaca, N.Y. :
Cornell University Press
1991.
|
| Series: | Science question in feminism.
|
| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7591/j.ctt1hhfnmg |
Table of Contents:
- 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?