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Informationen zum Autor 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 Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? Thinking from Women’s Lives. Klappentext "Sandra Harding fills significant gaps in three crucial, overlapping, yet strangely independent scholarly literatures on science and technology: feminist analyses of science, "traditional" science and technology studies, and postcolonial science studies. This is a unifying and strengthening project of great significance both practically (for the future of science throughout the world) and within academe."--Anne Fausto-Sterling, author of "Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality" 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...
