Is Science Multicultural?: Postcolonialisms, Feminisms, and Epistemologies by Sa

Description: Is Science Multicultural? by Sandra Harding Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Description Explores what the last few decades of European/American, feminist, and postcolonial science and technology studies can learn from each other. This book proposes new directions for thinking about objectivity, method, and reflexivity in light of the new understandings developed in the post-World War II world. Publisher Description 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. Author Biography SANDRA HARDING, a philosopher, is Professor of Education and Women Studies at UCLA. She is the author of Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? Thinking From Womens Lives, and The Science Question in Feminism (winner of the Jessie Bernard Award of the American Sociological Association). She is the editor of Feminism and Methodology: Social Science Issues and The "Racial" Economy of Science: Toward a Democratic Future, and co-editor of Discovering Reality: Feminist Perspectives on Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodology and Philosophy of Science (with Merrill Hintikka) and of Sex and Scientific Inquiry (with Jean O Barr). Details ISBN 0253211565 ISBN-13 9780253211569 Title Is Science Multicultural? Author Sandra Harding Format Paperback Year 1998 Pages 256 Publisher Indiana University Press GE_Item_ID:161655488; About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your shopping needs! With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and over 1,000,000 in stock items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! Shipping & Delivery Times Shipping is FREE to any address in USA. Please view eBay estimated delivery times at the top of the listing. Deliveries are made by either USPS or Courier. We are unable to deliver faster than stated. International deliveries will take 1-6 weeks. NOTE: We are unable to offer combined shipping for multiple items purchased. This is because our items are shipped from different locations. Returns If you wish to return an item, please consult our Returns Policy as below: Please contact Customer Services and request "Return Authorisation" before you send your item back to us. Unauthorised returns will not be accepted. Returns must be postmarked within 4 business days of authorisation and must be in resellable condition. Returns are shipped at the customer's risk. We cannot take responsibility for items which are lost or damaged in transit. For purchases where a shipping charge was paid, there will be no refund of the original shipping charge. Additional Questions If you have any questions please feel free to Contact Us. Categories Baby Books Electronics Fashion Games Health & Beauty Home, Garden & Pets Movies Music Sports & Outdoors Toys

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ISBN-13: 9780253211569

Book Title: Is Science Multicultural?

Number of Pages: 256 Pages

Publication Name: Is Science Multicultural? : Postcolonialisms, Feminisms, and Epistemologies

Language: English

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Subject: Feminism & Feminist Theory, Philosophy & Social Aspects, Multicultural Education, Study & Teaching, Women's Studies, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, History, Colonialism & Post-Colonialism

Publication Year: 1998

Item Height: 0.6 in

Item Weight: 14.5 Oz

Type: Textbook

Subject Area: Political Science, Technology & Engineering, Social Science, Education, Science

Author: Sandra Harding

Item Length: 8.7 in

Item Width: 6.6 in

Series: Race, Gender, and Science Ser.

Format: Trade Paperback