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Sciences from below : feminisms, postcolonialities, and modernities / Sandra Harding.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harding, Sandra G.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Next wave.
- Next wave: New directions in women's studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Social aspects.
- Science.
- Science--Philosophy.
- Technology--Philosophy.
- Technology.
- Philosophy--History.
- Philosophy.
- Civilization, Modern.
- Women in science.
- Feminist theory.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (293 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A preeminent science studies scholar shows how feminist and postcolonial science studies challenge the problematic modernity versus tradition binary.
- Contents:
- Why focus on modernity?
- Problems with modernity's science and politics
- Modernity's misleading dream
- The incomplete first modernity of industrial society
- Co-evolving science and society
- Views from (Western) modernity's peripheries
- Women as subjects of history and knowledge
- Postcolonial science and technology studies
- Women on modernity's horizons
- Interrogating tradition
- Multiple modernities
- Haunted modernities, gendered traditions
- Moving on.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613062123
- 9781283062121
- 1283062127
- 9780822381181
- 0822381184
- OCLC:
- 232639469
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