Feminism and science / edited by Evelyn Fox Keller, Helen E. Longino.

Contributor(s): Series: Oxford readings in feminismPublication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.Description: vii, 289 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 019875146
  • 0198751451
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  • Feminism & science [Cover title]
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I Early Statements

1. Women's Perspective as a Radical Critique of Sociology
2. Feminism and Science
3. Reason, Science and Domination of Matter

II Representations of Sex and Gender
4. Animal Sociology and a Natural Economy of the Body Politic
5. Body, Bias and Behaviour : A Comparative Analysis of Reasoning in Two Area of Biological Science
6. Pre- Theoretical Assumptions in Evolutionary
7. The Egg and Sperm : How Science has Constructed a Romance Based on Stereotypical Male- Female Roles

III. Language ,Gender and Science

8. Race and Gender: The Role of Analogy in Science
9. Why Mammals are Called Mammals; Gender Politics in Eigteenth- Century Natural History
10. Language and Ideology in Evolutionary : Reading Cultural Norms into Natural Law
11. Nuclear Language and How we Learned to pat the Bomb

IV. Gender and Knowledge
12. The Mind's Eye
13. Though This Be Method, Yet There is Madness in it : Paranoia and Liberal Epistemology
14. A Science of Mars or of Venus
15. Rethinking Standpoint Epistemology; What is ''Strong Objectivity''
16. Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of partial Perspective
17. Subject, Power, and Knowledge; Description and Prescription in Feminist Philosophies of Science

Bibliography : p. 280 - 284 . _ Index : p. 285 - 289

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