Feminism and science /
Over the past fifteen years, a new dimension to the analysis of science has emerged. Feminist theory, combined with the insights of recent developments in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science, has raised a number of new and important questions about the content, practice, and traditiona...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
1996.
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| Series: | Oxford readings in feminism.
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| Online Access: | Contributor biographical information Publisher description |
| Summary: | Over the past fifteen years, a new dimension to the analysis of science has emerged. Feminist theory, combined with the insights of recent developments in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science, has raised a number of new and important questions about the content, practice, and traditional goals of science. Feminists have pointed to a bias in the choice and definition of problems with which scientist have concerned themselves, and in the actual design and interpretation of experiments, and have argued that modern science evolved out of a conceptual structuring of the world that incorporated particular and historically specific ideologies of gender. The seventeen articles in this outstanding volume reflect the diversity and strengths of feminist contributions to current thinking about science. |
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| Physical Description: | vii, 289 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 280-284) and index. |
| ISBN: | 019875146X 9780198751465 0198751451 9780198751458 |