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Is science multicultural? : postcolonialisms, feminisms, and epistemologies / Sandra Harding.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Race, gender, and sciencePublication details: Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, c1998.Description: x, 242 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0253333652 (alk. paper)
  • 0253211565 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 501 21
LOC classification:
  • Q175.5 .H39 1998
Contents:
1. A Role for Postcolonial Histories of Science in Theories of Knowledge? Conceptual Shifts -- 2. Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies: A Space for New Questions -- 3. Voyages of Discovery: Imperial and Scientific -- 4. Cultures as Toolboxes for Sciences and Technologies -- 5. Postcolonial Feminist Science Studies: Resources, Challenges, Dialogues -- 6. Are There Gendered Standpoints on Nature? -- 7. Gender, Modernity, Knowledge: Postcolonial Standpoints -- 8. Recovering Epistemological Resources: Strong Objectivity -- 9. Borderlands Epistemologies -- 10. Dysfunctional Universality Claims? Scientific, Epistemological, and Political Issues -- 11. Robust Reflexivity.
Summary: Sandra Harding explores what practitioners of European/American, feminist, and postcolonial science and technology studies can learn from each other. She discusses the array of postcolonial science studies that have flourished over the last three decades and probes their implications for "northern" science.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. A Role for Postcolonial Histories of Science in Theories of Knowledge? Conceptual Shifts -- 2. Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies: A Space for New Questions -- 3. Voyages of Discovery: Imperial and Scientific -- 4. Cultures as Toolboxes for Sciences and Technologies -- 5. Postcolonial Feminist Science Studies: Resources, Challenges, Dialogues -- 6. Are There Gendered Standpoints on Nature? -- 7. Gender, Modernity, Knowledge: Postcolonial Standpoints -- 8. Recovering Epistemological Resources: Strong Objectivity -- 9. Borderlands Epistemologies -- 10. Dysfunctional Universality Claims? Scientific, Epistemological, and Political Issues -- 11. Robust Reflexivity.

Sandra Harding explores what practitioners of European/American, feminist, and postcolonial science and technology studies can learn from each other. She discusses the array of postcolonial science studies that have flourished over the last three decades and probes their implications for "northern" science.

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