Feminism and Science (Oxford Readings in Feminism) - Hardcover
Over the past fifteen years, a new dimension to the analysis of science has emerged. Feminist theory, combined with the insights of recent developments in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science, has raised a number of new and imprtant questions about the content, practice, and
traditional goals of science. Feminists have pointed to a bias in the choice and definition of problems with which scientists have concerned themselves, and in the actual design and interpretation of experiments, and have argued that modern science eveolved out of a conceptual structuring of the
world that incorporated particular and historically specific ideologies of gender. The seventeen outstanding articles in this volume reflect the diversity and strengths of feminist contributions to current thinking about science.
traditional goals of science. Feminists have pointed to a bias in the choice and definition of problems with which scientists have concerned themselves, and in the actual design and interpretation of experiments, and have argued that modern science eveolved out of a conceptual structuring of the
world that incorporated particular and historically specific ideologies of gender. The seventeen outstanding articles in this volume reflect the diversity and strengths of feminist contributions to current thinking about science.
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About the Author:
"An excellent selection of some "classics" to introduce students to the vast range of conceptual and practical dimensions of feminism and scientific research."--Marcia-Ann Dobres, University of South Carolina
Evelyn Fox Keller is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of Refiguring Life: Metaphors of Twentieth-Century Biology (Columbia UP). Helen E. Longino teaches women's
studies and philosophy at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Science as Social Knowledge: Values and Objectivity in Scientific Inquiry (Princeton UP, 1990).
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studies and philosophy at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Science as Social Knowledge: Values and Objectivity in Scientific Inquiry (Princeton UP, 1990).
"An excellent selection of some "classics" to introduce students to the vast range of conceptual and practical dimensions of feminism and scientific research."--Marcia-Ann Dobres, University of South Carolina
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- PublisherOxford University Press
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0198751451
- ISBN 13 9780198751458
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages298
- EditorKeller Evelyn Fox, Longino Helen E.
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