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Sciences from Below: Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities
Sandra Harding
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Description for Sciences from Below: Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities
Paperback. A preeminent science studies scholar shows how feminist and postcolonial science studies challenge the problematic modernity versus tradition binary. Series: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies. Num Pages: 296 pages. BIC Classification: JFFK; PDA. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 155 x 235 x 21. Weight in Grams: 502.
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. ... Read more
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Series
Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822342823
SKU
V9780822342823
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About Sandra Harding
Sandra Harding is Professor of Women’s Studies and Education at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her many books include Science and Social Inequality: Feminist and Postcolonial Issues; The Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader: Intellectual and Political Controversies; Science and Other Cultures: Issues in Philosophies of Science and Technology (coedited with Robert Figueroa); Is Science Multicultural? Postcolonialisms, Feminisms, and Epistemologies; and ... Read more
Reviews for Sciences from Below: Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities
“It seems that a work of this nature is long overdue and, will significantly improve the communication between modernity theorists and those working in feminist or postcolonial studies.” - Carolyn Anderson, Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith “This is an ambitious and impressive book. . . . Harding’s book is a significant contribution to the literature on science, feminism, and ... Read more