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The Science Question in Feminism

The Science Question in Feminism Paperback - 1986

by Sandra Harding

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Cornell University Press, 1986. Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.
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  • Title The Science Question in Feminism
  • Author Sandra Harding
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1St Edition
  • Condition Used - Acceptable
  • Pages 296
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY
  • Date 1986
  • Bookseller's Inventory # G0801493633I5N00
  • ISBN 9780801493638 / 0801493633
  • Weight 0.83 lbs (0.38 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.07 x 6.1 x 0.67 in (23.04 x 15.49 x 1.70 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 85048197
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.42

From the publisher

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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About the author

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.