Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?

Thinking from Women's Lives

By: Sandra G. Harding

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Paperback | 7 May 1991

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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.

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"This is an important book that has much to offer practicing scientists but probably will not be read by many of them. That is a shame, because its bold claims are usefully unsettling and its argument begs for engagement. One of the basic messages of Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?-that all fields of natural science are best analyzed from within the social sciences, of which they are logically a part, rather than taken as external models for the social sciences-has potential consequences for most, perhaps all, scientific practice."-Rayna Rapp, New School for Social Research, Science, Vol. 256, May 1992 -- Rayna Rapp, New School for Social Research, Science, Vol. 256, May 1992 "Harding's account offers a good insight into a variety of feminist responses to the hegemony apparently exercised by scientific thinking. Some readers will take the book as a challenge to the sociology of science to examine its arguments and assumptions in the light of standpoint theory and feminist postmodernism."-Steven Yearley,British Journal of Sociology "Whose Science, Whose Knowledge? represents a transition from gender to power considerations in Harding's continuous efforts to raise questions about the theory and practice of science."-Shulamit Reinharz, Gender & Society

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Non-Fiction Society & Culture Social Issues & Processes Feminism & Feminist Theory Science Science in General History of Science Social Groups Gender Studies Gender Studies: Women and Girls Philosophy of Science Philosophy

Epistemology & The Theory of Knowledge

Preface	p. vii
Introduction: After the Science Question in Feminism	p. 1
Science	p. 17
Feminism Confronts the Sciences	p. 19
How the Women's Movement Benefits Science	p. 51
Why """"Physics"""" Is a Bad Model for Physics	p. 77
Epistemology	p. 103
What Is Feminist Epistemology?	p. 105
Strong Objectivity and Socially Situated Knowledge	p. 138
Feminist Epistemology in and after the Enlightenment	p. 164
Others	p. 189
. . . and Race? toward the Science Question in Global Feminisms	p. 191
Common Histories, Common Destinies Science in the First and Third Worlds	p. 218
Thinking from the Perspective of Lesbian Lives	p. 249
Reinventing Ourselves as Other More New Agents of History and Knowledge	p. 268
Conclusion What Is Feminist Science?	p. 296
Index	p. 313
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