The Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader

The Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader
Author: Sandra G. Harding
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 2004
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9780415945011

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader

The Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader
Author: Sandra G. Harding
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 379
Release: 2004
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780415945004

Leading feminist scholar and one of the founders of Standpoint Theory, Sandra Harding brings together the biggest names in the field--Dorothy Smith, Donna Haraway, Patricia Hill Collins, Nancy Hartsock and Hilary Rose--to not only showcase the most influential essays on the topic but to also highlight subsequent interrogations and developments of these approaches from a wide variety of disciplines and intellectual and political positions.

The Feminist Standpoint Revisited, And Other Essays

The Feminist Standpoint Revisited, And Other Essays
Author: Nancy C.M. Hartsock
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2019-07-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000301419

In this book, Nancy C. M. Hartsock offers her current thinking about the development of feminist political economy, focusing on the relationships between feminist theory and activism, feminism and Marxism, and postmodernism and feminist politics.

Feminist Theory Reader

Feminist Theory Reader
Author: Carole Ruth McCann
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 518
Release: 2003
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9780415931526

Feminist Theory Reader is an anthology of classic and contemporary works of feminist theory, organized around the goal of providing both local and global perspectives.

The Science Question in Feminism

The Science Question in Feminism
Author: Sandra G. Harding
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1986
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780801493638

Can science, steeped in Western, masculine, bourgeois endeavors, nevertheless be used for emancipatory ends? In this major contribution to the debate over the role gender plays in the scientific enterprise, Sandra Harding pursues that question, challenging the intellectual and social foundations of scientific thought.Harding provides the first comprehensive and critical survey of the feminist science critiques, and examines inquiries into the androcentricism that has endured since the birth of modern science. Harding critiques three epistemological approaches: feminist empiricism, which identifies only bad science as the problem; the feminist standpoint, which holds that women's social experience provides a unique starting point for discovering masculine bias in science; and feminist postmodernism, which disputes the most basic scientific assumptions. She points out the tensions among these stances and the inadequate concepts that inform their analyses, yet maintains that the critical discourse they foster is vital to the quest for a science informed by emancipatory morals and politics.

Sciences from Below

Sciences from Below
Author: Sandra Harding
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 293
Release: 2008-06-25
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0822381184

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. She also reveals how ideas about gender and colonialism frame the conventional contrast between modernity and tradition. As she has done before, Harding points the way forward in Sciences from Below. Describing the work of the post-Kuhnian science studies scholars Bruno Latour, Ulrich Beck, and the team of Michael Gibbons, Helga Nowtony, and Peter Scott, Harding reveals how, from different perspectives, they provide useful resources for rethinking the modernity versus tradition binary and its effects on the production of scientific knowledge. Yet, for the most part, they do not take feminist or postcolonial critiques into account. As Harding demonstrates, feminist science studies and postcolonial science studies have vital contributions to make; they bring to light not only the male supremacist investments in the Western conception of modernity and the historical and epistemological bases of Western science but also the empirical knowledge traditions of the global South. Sciences from Below is a clear and compelling argument that modernity studies and post-Kuhnian, feminist, and postcolonial sciences studies each have something important, and necessary, to offer to those formulating socially progressive scientific research and policy.

Feminist Epistemologies

Feminist Epistemologies
Author: Linda Alcoff
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2013-09-05
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 113497664X

This is the first collection by influential feminist theorists to focus on the heart of traditional epistemology, dealing with such issues as the nature of knowledge and objectivity from a gender perspective.