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Feminism and science

Author: Evelyn Fox Keller; Helen E Longino
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
Series: Oxford readings in feminism.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Over the past fifteen years, a new dimension to the analysis of science has emerged. Feminist theory, combined with the insights of recent developments in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science, has raised a number of new and important questions about the content, practice, and traditional goals of science. Feminists have pointed to a bias in the choice and definition of problems with which scientist have  Read more...
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Genre/Form: Aufsatzsammlung
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Evelyn Fox Keller; Helen E Longino
ISBN: 019875146X 9780198751465 0198751451 9780198751458
OCLC Number: 33357496
Description: vii, 289 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: Women's perspective as a radical critique of sociology / Dorothy E. Smith --
Feminism and science / Evelyn Fox Keller --
Reason, science and the domination of matter / Genevieve Lloyd --
Animal sociology and a natural economy of the body politic, part II: the past is a contested zone / Donna Haraway --
Body, bias, and behaviour: a comparative analysis of reasoning in two areas of biological science / Helen E. Longino and Ruth Doell --
Pre-theoretical assumptions in evolutionary explanations of female sexuality / Elisabeth A. Lloyd --
The Egg and the sperm: how science has constructed a romance based on stereotypical male-female roles / Emily Martin --
Race and gender: the role of analogy in science / Nancy Leys Stepan --
Why mammals are called mammals: gender politics in eighteenth-century natural history / Londa Schiebinger --
Language and ideology in evolutionary theory: reading cultural norms into natural law / Evelyn Fox Keller --
Nuclear language and how we learned to pat the bomb / Carol Cohn --
The Mind's eye / Evelyn Fox Keller and Christine R. Grontkowski --
Though this be method, yet there is madness in it: paranoia and liberal epistemology / Naomi Scheman --
A Science of Mars or of Venus? / Mary Tiles --
Rethinking standpoint epistemology: what is 'strong objectivity'? / Sandra Harding --
Situated knowledges: the science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective / Donna Haraway --
Subjects, power, and knowledge: description and prescription in feminist philosophies of science / Helen E. Longino.
Series Title: Oxford readings in feminism.
Other Titles: Feminism & science
Responsibility: edited by Evelyn Fox Keller and Helen E. Longino.
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Over the past fifteen years, a new dimension to the analysis of science has emerged. Feminist theory, combined with the insights of recent developments in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science, has raised a number of new and important questions about the content, practice, and traditional goals of science. Feminists have pointed to a bias in the choice and definition of problems with which scientist have concerned themselves, and in the actual design and interpretation of experiments, and have argued that modern science evolved out of a conceptual structuring of the world that incorporated particular and historically specific ideologies of gender. The seventeen articles in this outstanding volume reflect the diversity and strengths of feminist contributions to current thinking about science.

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