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Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?

Sandra Harding

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Introduction - after the question in feminism. Part 1 Science: feminism confronts the sciences how the women's movement benefits - 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 question in global feminism common histories, common destinies - 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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Introduction - after the question in feminism. Part 1 Science: feminism confronts the sciences how the women's movement benefits - 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 question in global feminism common histories, common destinies - 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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Introduction - after the question in feminism. Part 1 Science: feminism confronts the sciences how the women's movement benefits - 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 question in global feminism common histories, common destinies - 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.

Key concepts: Feminism, Feminist epistemology, Objectivity (philosophy), Situated, Enlightenment, Lesbian, Epistemology, Sociology

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