Science and social inequality
Subtitle: feminist and postcolonial issues
By: Sandra Harding.
Series: Race and gender in science studies
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Urbana and Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780252030604; 9780252073045
Subjects: Progress.; Feminism and science.; Postcolonialism.; Science and civilization.; Science -- Social aspects -- Developing countries.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : science and inequality; title: The social world of scientific research; title: Thinking about race and science; title: Seeing ourselves as others see us : multicutural and postcolonial science and technology studies; title: With both eyes open : a world of sciences; title: Feminist science studies : new challenges and opportunities; title: Discriminatory epistemologies and philosophies of science; title: Feminist science and technology studies at the periphery of the enlightenment; title: The new production of scientific knowledge : intellectual and political challenges; title: Truth, relativism, and science's political unconscious; title: The political unconscious of Western science; title: Are truth claims in science dysfunctional?; title: Does the threat of relativism deserve a panic?