Feminism and Science

Name: Feminism and Science
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ISBN: 9780198751465

ISBN-10: 019875146X

ISBN-13: 9780198751465

Edition: 2nd 1996 (Revised)

Authors: Evelyn Fox Keller, Helen E. Longino

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(Series copy) The new Oxford Readings in Feminism series maps the dramatic influence of feminist theory on every branch of academic knowledge. Offering feminist perspectives on disciplines from history to science, each book assembles the most important articles written on its field in the last ten to fifteen years. Old stereotypes are challenged and traditional attitudes upset in these lively-- and sometimes controversial--volumes, all of which are edited by feminists prominent in their particular field. Comprehensive, accessible, and intellectually daring, the Oxford Readings in Feminism series is vital reading for anyone interested in the effects of feminist ideas within the academy. …

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List price: $89.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1996
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 5/23/1996
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 298
Size: 5.43" wide x 8.50" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Helen E. Longino is chair and the Clarence Irving Lewis Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Stanford University. She is the author of Science as Social Knowledge and The Fate of Knowledge.



Notes on Contributors


Introduction


References



Early Statements



Women's Perspective as a Radical Critique of Sociology



Feminism and Science



Reason, Science and the Domination of Matter



Representations of Sex and Gender



Animal Sociology and a Natural Economy of the Body Politic, Part Ii: The Past is the Contested Zone



Body, Bias, and Behaviour: A Comparative Analysis of Reasoning in Two Areas of Biological Science


Conclusion


Notes



Pre-Theoretical Assumptions in Evolutionary Explanations of Female Sexuality



The Egg and the Sperm: How Science Has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male-Female Roles



Language, Gender, and Science



Race and Gender: The Role of Analogy in Science


Notes



Why Mammals Are Called Mammals: Gender Politics in Eighteenth-Century Natural History



Language and Ideology in Evolutionary Theory: Reading Cultural Norms into Natural Law


References



Nuclear Language and How We Learned to Pat the Bomb



Gender and Knowledge



The Mind's Eye Evelyn Fox Keller and Christine R. Grontkowski



Though This Be Method, Yet There is Madness in It: Paranoia and Liberal Epistemology


A Science of Mars or of Venus?



Rethinking Standpoint Epistemology: What is 'strong Objectivity'?



Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective



Subjects, Power, and Knowledge: Description and Prescription in Feminist Philosophies of Science


Conclusions


Notes


Bibliography


Index