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Is Science Multicultural? explores what the last three decades of European/American, feminist, and postcolonial science and technology studies can learn from each other. Sandra Harding introduces and discusses an array of postcolonial science studies, and their implications for "northern" science. All three science studies strains have developed in the context of post-World War II science and technology projects. They illustrate how technoscientific projects mean different things to different groups. The meaning attached by the culture of the West may not be shared or may be diametrically opposite in the cultures in other parts of the world. All, however, would agree that scientific projects—modern science included—are "local knowledge systems." The interests and discursive resources that the various science studies bring groups to their projects, and the ways that they organize the production of their kind of science studies, are distinctively culturally-local also. While their projects may be unintentionally converging, they also conflict in fundamental respects. How is this inevitable cultural-situatedness of knowledge both an invaluable resource as well as a limitation on the advance of knowledge about nature? What are the distinctive resources that the feminist and postcolonial science theorists offer in thinking about the history of modern science; the diversity of "scientific" traditions in non-European as well as in European cultures; and the directions that might be taken by less androcentric and Eurocentric scientific projects? How might modern sciences' projects be linked more firmly to the prodemocratic yearnings that are so widely voiced in contemporary life? Carefully balancing poststructuralist and conventional epistemological resources, this study concludes by proposing new directions for thinking about objectivity, method, and reflexivity in light of the new understandings developed in the post-World War II world.

Sociology of knowledge --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Decolonization. --- Science --- Technology --- History. --- Social aspects. --- Feminism. --- Decolonization --- Dekolonisatie --- Dekolonisation --- Descolonização --- Décolonisation --- Feminism --- Feminisme --- Féminisme --- Women's lib --- Women's liberation movement --- Women's movement --- Feminism and science --- Sciences --- Technologie --- Féminisme et sciences --- Décolonisation --- Social aspects --- History --- Aspect social --- Histoire --- Science and society --- Sociology of science --- Emancipation of women --- Feminist movement --- Women --- Women's liberation --- Social movements --- Anti-feminism --- Sovereignty --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Colonization --- Postcolonialism --- Emancipation --- Science - Social aspects. --- Science - History. --- Technology - History.

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In Sciences from Below, the esteemed feminist science studies scholar Sandra Harding synthesizes modernity studies with progressive tendencies in science and technology studies to suggest how scientific and technological pursuits might be more productively linked to social justice projects around the world. Harding illuminates the idea of multiple modernities as well as the major contributions of post-Kuhnian Western, feminist, and postcolonial science studies. She explains how these schools of thought can help those seeking to implement progressive social projects refine their thinking to overcome limiting ideas about what modernity and modernization are, the objectivity of scientific knowledge, patriarchy, and Eurocentricity. She also reveals how ideas about gender and colonialism frame the conventional contrast between modernity and tradition. As she has done before, Harding points the way forward in Sciences from Below.

Science --- Women in science --- Sciences --- Femmes dans les sciences --- Social aspects --- Philosophy --- Aspect social --- Philosophie --- Civilization, Modern. --- Feminist theory. --- Technology --- Women in science. --- History. --- Philosophy. --- Social aspects.

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Progress. --- Feminism and science. --- Postcolonialism. --- Science and civilization. --- Science --- Social aspects --- Feminism and science --- Postcolonialism --- Progress --- Science and civilization --- Natural science --- Natural sciences --- Science of science --- Sciences --- Civilization and science --- History and science --- Science and history --- Science and society --- Social progress --- Civilization --- Regression (Civilization) --- Social stability --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization --- Science and feminism

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In the mid-1970s and early 1980s, several feminist theorists began developing alternatives to the traditional methods of scientific research. The result was a new theory, now recognized as Standpoint Theory, which caused heated debate and radically altered the way research is conducted. The Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader is the first anthology to collect the most important essays on the subject as well as more recent works that bring the topic up-to-date. Leading feminist scholar and one of the founders of Standpoint Theory, Sandra Harding brings together the a prestigious list of scholars--Dorothy Smith, Donna Haraway, Patricia Hill Collins, Nancy Hartsock and Hilary Rose--to not only showcase the most influential essays on the topic but to also highlight subsequent developments of these approaches from a wide variety of disciplines and intellectual and political positions. The Reader will be essential reading for feminist scholars.

Feminist theory. --- Theory of knowledge --- Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Feminisme. --- Feminismus. --- Forschung. --- Frau. --- Féminisme. --- Recherche. --- Theorie. --- Théorie féministe. --- Wissenschaft. --- Feminism --- Theory --- Book --- Courses --- Epistemology