The Science Question in Feminism: Industrial Policy in Europe Contributor(s): Harding, Sandra G. (Author) |
|
![]() |
ISBN: 0801418801 ISBN-13: 9780801418808 Publisher: Cornell University Press OUR PRICE: $128.70 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: May 1986 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Science | Philosophy & Social Aspects - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory - Philosophy | Epistemology |
Dewey: 501 |
LCCN: 85048197 |
Physical Information: 0.75" H x 6" W x 9" (1.25 lbs) 296 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Harding, Sandra: - Sandra Harding is a Distinguished Research Professor of Education Emeritus at UCLA. Her books includeThe Science Question in Feminism, also from Cornell, Sciences From Below: Feminisms, Postcolonialisms, and Modernities, andObjectivity and Diversity: Another Logic of Scientific Research. |