Harding, Sandra G.,

Sciences from below : feminisms, postcolonialities, and modernities / Sandra Harding. - 283 pages ; 24 cm. - Next wave . - Next wave (Duke University Press) .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-280) and index.

Why focus on modernity? -- Problems with modernity's science and politics -- Modernity's misleading dream -- The incomplete first modernity of industrial society -- Co-evolving science and society -- Views from (Western) modernity's peripheries -- Women as subjects of history and knowledge -- Postcolonial science and technology studies : are there multiple sciences? -- Women on modernity's horizons : feminist postcolonial science and technology studies -- Interrogating tradition : challenges and possibilities -- Multiple modernities : postcolonial standpoints -- Haunted modernities, gendered traditions -- Moving on : a methodological provocation.

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2008003008


Science--Social aspects
Science--Philosophy
Technology--Philosophy
Philosophy--History.
Civilization, Modern
Women in science
Feminist theory

Q175.5 / .H395 2008

306.45