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050 00 $aHQ1397$b.H28 1986
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100 1 $aHarding, Sandra G.
245 14 $aThe science question in feminism /$cSandra Harding.
260 0 $aIthaca :$bCornell University Press,$c1986.
300 $a271 p. ;$c24 cm.
500 $aIncludes index.
504 $aBibliography: p. 252-261.
505 0 $aPreface --- 1. From woman question in science to the science question in feminism --- 2. Gender and science: two problematic concepts --- 3. The social structure of science: complaints and disorders --- 4. Androcentrism in biology and social science --- 5. Natural resources: gaining moral approval for scientific genders and genderdized sciences --- 6. From feminist empiricism to feminist standpoint epistemologies --- 7. Other 'others' and fractures identities: issues for epistemologies --- 8. 'The birth of modern science' as a text: internalist and externalist stories --- 9. Problems with post-Kuhnian stories --- 10. Valuable tensions and a new 'Unity of science.'
520 $a"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."--Publisher description.
650 0 $aSexism.
650 0 $aFeminism.
650 0 $aScience$xHistory.
650 0 $aWomen in science.
650 0 $aKnowledge, Theory of.
650 0 $aScience$xSocial aspects.
650 0 $aCivilization, Western.
650 0 $aScience and civilization.
650 0 $aSexism in science.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aHarding, Sandra G.$tScience question in feminism.$dIthaca : Cornell University Press, 1986$w(OCoLC)654895459
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