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Title: The Science Question in Feminism by Sandra Harding ISBN: 0-8014-9363-3 Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr Pub. Date: June, 1986 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: An essential book for scientists, philosophers, ethicists
Comment: In this ground-breaking work that has become a classic, respected philosopher of science Sandra Harding provided the first critical survey of three feminist critiques of science, mapping both their inadequacies and the essential discourse they provide in a quest for science that is informed by moral considerations. She shows how science that holds itself aloof from moral and political considerations, and claims to be objective, rational, and value-neutral, is actually none of the above, but is instead laden with hidden values and interests that select the problems, theories, methods and interpretations of research. Harding shows how the end result of such science is deficient, as it fails to make any sense of women's social experience--that is, it fails in its explanatory power for over half of the world.
Rating: 1
Summary: Dissapointing
Comment: I was dissapointed with the quality of this book. It sits on my shelf only 3 chapters read. There is more loud-writing than persuasive argument in this book and unfortunately it reinforces the stereo-type of the militant hand-waving feminist (note this reader was not impressed with "Whose science" either). Not recommended for philosophers (incidentally, Harding edited and wrote a very good introduction for an excellent philosophical book on the Duhem-Quine Thesis, "Can Theories be Refuted?").
Rating: 1
Summary: A study in the non sequitur.
Comment: Harding digs up all matter of bizarre "evidence" to support her thesis that science is radically sexist. Unfortunately, none of the arguments she makes have anything remotely close to validity, never mind soundness. This book does a great disservice to people in general and women in specific by enthroning sloppy thinking, calling it "feminine".
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Title: Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?: Thinking from Women's Lives by Sandra Harding ISBN: 0801497469 Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr Pub. Date: June, 1991 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Feminism and Science (Oxford Readings in Feminism) by Evelyn Fox Keller, Helen E. Longino ISBN: 019875146X Publisher: Oxford Press Pub. Date: March, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Is Science Multicultural Postcolonialism, Feminism & Epistemologies: Postcolonialisms, Feminisms, and Epistemologies (Race, Gender, Science) by Sandra Harding ISBN: 0253211565 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: February, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.37 |
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Title: Reflections on Gender and Science by Evelyn Fox Keller ISBN: 0300065957 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: September, 1996 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Only Paradoxes to Offer: French Feminists and the Rights of Man by Joan Wallach Scott, Joan Wallace Scott ISBN: 0674639316 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: September, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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