TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harding,Sandra
TI  - Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?: Thinking from Women's Lives 
SN  - 9781501712951
AV  - Q130 .H37 1991
U1  - 305.43/5 20
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Feminist theory
KW  - Knowledge, Theory of
KW  - Science
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Women in science
KW  - Women
KW  - Employment
KW  - Working class women
KW  - History Of Science
KW  - History
KW  - Womens Studies
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Epistemology philosophy
KW  - Epistemology
KW  - Feminisms
KW  - Feminist Epistemology
KW  - Feminist activism
KW  - Feminist analysis
KW  - Feminist discourse
KW  - Feminist education
KW  - Feminist literature
KW  - Gender & Society
KW  - Social Research
KW  - The Science Question in Feminism
KW  - Women's Studies
KW  - epistemology
KW  - feminism and methodology
KW  - feminism and science
KW  - feminism and society
KW  - feminism
KW  - feminist approach to science
KW  - feminist critique
KW  - feminist knowledge theory
KW  - feminist perspective
KW  - feminist science studies scholar
KW  - feminist sociology
KW  - feminist studies
KW  - feminist theory
KW  - gender studies
KW  - history of philosophy
KW  - intro to feminism
KW  - introduction to feminism
KW  - knowledge
KW  - male feminist
KW  - modernity studies
KW  - philosophical feminist theories
KW  - philosophy of science
KW  - philosophy
KW  - science theory
KW  - scientific knowledge
KW  - sociology
KW  - theory
KW  - understanding feminism
KW  - women in science
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; I. Introduction: After the Science Question in Feminism --; I. Science --; 2. Feminism Confronts the Sciences: Reform and Transformation --; 3. How the Women's Movement Benefits Science: Two Views --; 4. Why "Physics" Is a Bad Model for Physics --; II. Epistemology --; 5. What Is Feminist Epistemology? --; 6. "Strong Objectivity" and Socially Situated Knowledge --; 7. Feminist Epistemology in and after the Enlightenment --; III. "Others" --; 8. ". . . and Race"? Toward the Science Question in Global Feminisms --; 9. Common Histories, Common Destinies: Science in the First and Third Worlds --; 10. Thinking from the Perspective of Lesbian Lives --; 11. Reinventing Ourselves as Other: More New Agents of History and Knowledge --; 12. Conclusion: What Is Feminist Science? --; Index; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501712951
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501712951
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