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Sandra Harding - Is Science Multicultural?: Postcolonialisms, Feminisms, and Epistemologies - 9780253211569 - V9780253211569
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Is Science Multicultural?: Postcolonialisms, Feminisms, and Epistemologies

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Description for Is Science Multicultural?: Postcolonialisms, Feminisms, and Epistemologies Paperback. Explores what the last few decades of European/American, feminist, and postcolonial science and technology studies can learn from each other. This book proposes new directions for thinking about objectivity, method, and reflexivity in light of the new understandings developed in the post-World War II world. Series: Race, Gender, & Science. Num Pages: 256 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 171 x 16. Weight in Grams: 416.

Is Science Multicultural? explores what the last three decades of European/American, feminist, and postcolonial science and technology studies can learn from each other. Sandra Harding introduces and discusses an array of postcolonial science studies, and their implications for "northern" science. All three science studies strains have developed in the context of post-World War II science and technology projects. They illustrate how technoscientific projects mean different things to different groups. The meaning attached by the culture of the West may not be shared or may be diametrically opposite in the cultures in other parts of the world. All, however, would agree ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Race, Gender, & Science
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253211569
SKU
V9780253211569
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Sandra Harding
SANDRA HARDING, a philosopher, is Professor of Education and Women Studies at UCLA. She is the author of Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? Thinking From Women's Lives, and The Science Question in Feminism (winner of the Jessie Bernard Award of the American Sociological Association). She is the editor of Feminism and Methodology: Social Science Issues and The "Racial" Economy of Science: ... Read more

Reviews for Is Science Multicultural?: Postcolonialisms, Feminisms, and Epistemologies
" ... a fascinating and important book."
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development

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