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Science and social inequality : feminist and postcolonial issues / Sandra Harding.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Race and gender in science studiesPublisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Description: xi, 205 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0252030605
  • 9780252030604
  • 0252073045
  • 9780252073045
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.48308 22
LOC classification:
  • HM891 .H37 2006
Contents:
Introduction : science and inequality -- The social world of scientific research -- Thinking about race and science -- Seeing ourselves as others see us : postcolonial science studies -- With both eyes open : a world of sciences -- Northern feminist science studies : new challenges and opportunities -- Discriminatory epistemologies and philosophies of science -- Feminist science and technology studies at the periphery of the enlightenment -- Truth, relativism, and science's political unconscious -- The political unconscious of Western science -- Are truth claims in science dysfunctional? -- Does the threat of relativism deserve a panic?
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-198) and index.

Introduction : science and inequality -- The social world of scientific research -- Thinking about race and science -- Seeing ourselves as others see us : postcolonial science studies -- With both eyes open : a world of sciences -- Northern feminist science studies : new challenges and opportunities -- Discriminatory epistemologies and philosophies of science -- Feminist science and technology studies at the periphery of the enlightenment -- Truth, relativism, and science's political unconscious -- The political unconscious of Western science -- Are truth claims in science dysfunctional? -- Does the threat of relativism deserve a panic?

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