Sciences From Below - Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities

Informationen zum Autor Sandra Harding Klappentext A feminist analysis of current, major postcolonial and science studies theorists, showing the continued importance and ongoing neglect of gender in their work. Zusammenfassung A preeminent science studies scholar shows how feminist and postcolonial science studies challenge the problematic modernity versus tradition binary. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Why Focus on Modernity? 1 I. Problems with Modernity's Science and Politics: Perspectives from Northern Science Studies 1. Modernity's Misleading Dream: Latour 23 2. The Incomplete First Modernity of Industrial Society: Beck 49 3. Co-evoloving Science and Society: Gibbons, Nowotny, and Scott 75 II. Views from (Western) Modernity's Peripheries 4. Women as Subjects of History and Knowledge 101 5. Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies: Are There Multiple Sciences? 130 6. Women on Modernity's Horizons: Feminist Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies 155 III. Interrogating Tradition: Challenges and Possibilities 7. Multiple Modernities: Postcolonial Standpoints 173 8. Haunted Modernities, Gendered Traditions 191 9. Moving On: A Methodological Provocation 214 Notes 235 Bibliography 257 Index 281

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Sandra Harding, Sandra G. Harding
• Editore: Duke University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 25.06.2008
• EAN: 9780822342595
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4259-5
• Pagine: 296
• Dimensioni: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Serie: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies; Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Scienze naturali, tematiche generali; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Teorie sociologiche