Science Question in Feminism

Name: Science Question in Feminism
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ISBN: 9780801493638

ISBN-10: 0801493633

ISBN-13: 9780801493638

Edition: 1986

Authors: Sandra Harding

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Can science, steeped in Western, masculine, bourgeois endeavors, nevertheless be used for emancipatory ends? In this major contribution to the debate over the role gender plays in the scientific enterprise, Sandra Harding pursues that question, challenging the intellectual and social foundations of scientific thought. Harding provides the first comprehensive and critical survey of the feminist science critiques, and examines inquiries into the androcentricism that has endured since the birth of modern science. Harding critiques three epistemological approaches: feminist empiricism, which identifies only bad science as the problem; the feminist standpoint, which holds that women's social…

Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 5/14/1986
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 5.94" wide x 8.94" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.924
Language: English

SANDRA HARDING, a philosopher, is Professor of Education and Women Studies at UCLA. She is author of Whose Science: Whose Knowledge?: Thinking from Women's Lives and The Science Question in Feminism, and editor of Feminism and Methodology: Social Science Issues.