Author: Sandra G. HardingPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415945011
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
The Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader
Author: Sandra G. HardingPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415945004
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 379
Book Description
Leading feminist scholar and one of the founders of Standpoint Theory, Sandra Harding brings together the biggest names in the field--Dorothy Smith, Donna Haraway, Patricia Hill Collins, Nancy Hartsock and Hilary Rose--to not only showcase the most influential essays on the topic but to also highlight subsequent interrogations and developments of these approaches from a wide variety of disciplines and intellectual and political positions.
Author: Sandra G. HardingThe Feminist Standpoint Revisited, And Other Essays
Author: Nancy C.M. HartsockPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000301419
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
In this book, Nancy C. M. Hartsock offers her current thinking about the development of feminist political economy, focusing on the relationships between feminist theory and activism, feminism and Marxism, and postmodernism and feminist politics.
Feminist Theory Reader
Author: Carole Ruth McCannPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415931526
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 518
Book Description
Feminist Theory Reader is an anthology of classic and contemporary works of feminist theory, organized around the goal of providing both local and global perspectives.
Author: Sandra HardingThe Science Question in Feminism
Author: Sandra G. HardingPublisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 9780801493638
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
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.
Feminist Epistemologies
Author: Linda AlcoffPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113497664X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
This is the first collection by influential feminist theorists to focus on the heart of traditional epistemology, dealing with such issues as the nature of knowledge and objectivity from a gender perspective.
Sciences from Below
Author: Sandra HardingPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 0822381184
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 293
Book Description
In Sciences from Below, the esteemed feminist science studies scholar Sandra Harding synthesizes modernity studies with progressive tendencies in science and technology studies to suggest how scientific and technological pursuits might be more productively linked to social justice projects around the world. Harding illuminates the idea of multiple modernities as well as the major contributions of post-Kuhnian Western, feminist, and postcolonial science studies. She explains how these schools of thought can help those seeking to implement progressive social projects refine their thinking to overcome limiting ideas about what modernity and modernization are, the objectivity of scientific knowledge, patriarchy, and Eurocentricity. She also reveals how ideas about gender and colonialism frame the conventional contrast between modernity and tradition. As she has done before, Harding points the way forward in Sciences from Below. Describing the work of the post-Kuhnian science studies scholars Bruno Latour, Ulrich Beck, and the team of Michael Gibbons, Helga Nowtony, and Peter Scott, Harding reveals how, from different perspectives, they provide useful resources for rethinking the modernity versus tradition binary and its effects on the production of scientific knowledge. Yet, for the most part, they do not take feminist or postcolonial critiques into account. As Harding demonstrates, feminist science studies and postcolonial science studies have vital contributions to make; they bring to light not only the male supremacist investments in the Western conception of modernity and the historical and epistemological bases of Western science but also the empirical knowledge traditions of the global South. Sciences from Below is a clear and compelling argument that modernity studies and post-Kuhnian, feminist, and postcolonial sciences studies each have something important, and necessary, to offer to those formulating socially progressive scientific research and policy.
Feminism and Method
Author: Nancy A. NaplesPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113456807X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Naples draws on different research topics, such as welfare, poverty, sexual identity, and sexual abuse, to illustrate some of the most salient dilemmas of feminist research: the debate over objectivity, the paradox of discourse, the dilemma of "standpoint," and the challenges of activist research. By linking important feminist theoretical debates with case studies, Naples illustrates the strategies she developed for resolving the challenges posed be postmodern, Third World, postcolonial, and queer studies.
