Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?: A Friend of Virtue Contributor(s): Harding, Sandra G. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0801497469 ISBN-13: 9780801497469 Publisher: Cornell University Press OUR PRICE: $32.62 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1991 Annotation: With a book that is guaranteed to upset familiar assumptions about or ways of knowing, Sandra Harding again steps into the center of a thorn debate--a debate about the nature of the scientific enterprise and of human knowledge itself. Vigorously and persuasively, she develops further the themes first addressed in The Science Question in Feminism. It that widely influential book, she asked what it is that is distinctive about feminist research. Here she conducts a compelling analysis of feminist theories on the philosophical problem of how we know what we know. |
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BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Women's Studies - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory - Philosophy | Epistemology |
Dewey: 305.435 |
LCCN: 90-55724 |
Lexile Measure: 1560 |
Physical Information: 0.82" H x 6.07" W x 9.02" (1.01 lbs) 336 pages |
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Publisher Description: 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 arguments in highly readable prose. In Part 1, she discusses issues that will interest anyone concerned with the social bases of scientific knowledge. In Part 2, she modifies some of her views and then pursues the many issues raised by the feminist position which holds that women's social experience provides a unique vantage point for discovering masculine bias and and questioning conventional claims about nature and social life. In Part 3, Harding looks at the insights that people of color, male feminists, lesbians, and others can bring to these controversies, and concludes by outlining a feminist approach to science in which these insights are central. Women and men cannot understand or explain the world we live in or the real choices we have, she writes, as long as the sciences describe and explain the world primarily from the perspectives of the lives of the dominant groups.Harding's is a richly informed, radical voice that boldly confronts issues of crucial importance to the future of many academic disciplines. Her book will amply reward readers looking to achieve a more fruitful understanding of the relations between feminism, science, and social life. |
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. |