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Harding, Sandra

 
9780801493638: The Science Question in Feminism: Industrial Policy in Europe
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ISBN 10: 0801493633 ISBN 13: 9780801493638
Editorial: Cornell University Press, 2000

Sinopsis

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 experience provides a unique starting point for discovering masculine bias in science; and feminist postmodernism, which disputes the most basic scientific assumptions. She points out the tensions among these stances and the inadequate concepts that inform their analyses, yet maintains that the critical discourse they foster is vital to the quest for a science informed by emancipatory morals and politics.

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Sandra Harding is Professor of Social Sciences and Comparative Education at the University of California at Los Angeles. She is also Director of the UCLA Center for the Study of Women.

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Editorial
Cornell University Press
Año de publicación
2000
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0801493633
ISBN 13 
9780801493638
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Número de páginas
272
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9780801418808: The Science Question in Feminism: Industrial Policy in Europe

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ISBN 10:  0801418801 ISBN 13:  9780801418808
Editorial: Cornell University Press, 1986
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