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Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?: Thinking from Women's Lives

Sandra Harding
- 01 Jul 1992 - 
- Vol. 21, Iss: 4, pp 536
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In this article, the science question in global feminism is addressed and a discussion of science in the women's movement is presented, including two views why "physics" is a bad model for physics.
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Introduction - after the science question in feminism. Part 1 Science: feminism confronts the sciences how the women's movement benefits science - two views why "physics" is a bad model for physics. Part 2 Epistemology: what is feminist epistemology "strong objectivity" and socially situated knowledge feminist epistemology in and after the enlightenment. Part 3 "Others": "...and race?" - the science question in global feminism common histories, common destinies - science in the first and third worlds "real science" thinking from the perspective of lesbian lives reinventing ourselves as other Conclusion - what is a feminist science.

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