Harding / Grewal / Kaplan Sciences from Below

Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8118-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 292 Seiten

Reihe: Next Wave: New Directions in Women's Studies

A preeminent science studies scholar shows how feminist and postcolonial science studies challenge the problematic modernity versus tradition binary.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harding, Sandra

Grewal, Inderpal

Kaplan, Caren

Wiegman, Robyn

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.