Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? : : Thinking from Women's Lives / / Sandra Harding.

Sandra Harding here develops further the themes first addressed in her widely influential book, The Science Question in Feminism, and conducts a compelling analysis of feminist theories on the philosophical problem of how we know what we know.Following a strong narrative line, Harding sets out her a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • I. Introduction: After the Science Question in Feminism
  • I. Science
  • 2. Feminism Confronts the Sciences: Reform and Transformation
  • 3. How the Women's Movement Benefits Science: Two Views
  • 4. Why "Physics" Is a Bad Model for Physics
  • II. Epistemology
  • 5. What Is Feminist Epistemology?
  • 6. "Strong Objectivity" and Socially Situated Knowledge
  • 7. Feminist Epistemology in and after the Enlightenment
  • III. "Others"
  • 8. ". . . and Race"? Toward the Science Question in Global Feminisms
  • 9. Common Histories, Common Destinies: Science in the First and Third Worlds
  • 10. Thinking from the Perspective of Lesbian Lives
  • 11. Reinventing Ourselves as Other: More New Agents of History and Knowledge
  • 12. Conclusion: What Is Feminist Science?
  • Index