Feminism and science / edited by Evelyn Fox Keller and Helen E. Longino.

Other author Keller, Evelyn Fox, 1936-2023
Other author Longino, Helen E.
Format Book
Publication InfoOxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996.
Descriptionvii, 289 pages ; 22 cm.
Subjects

Cover title Feminism & science
SeriesOxford readings in feminism
Oxford readings in feminism. ^A379338
Contents Women's perspective as a radical critique of sociology / Dorothy E. Smith -- Feminism and science / Evelyn Fox Keller -- Reason, science and the domination of matter / Genevieve Lloyd -- Animal sociology and a natural economy of the body politic, part II: the past is a contested zone / Donna Haraway -- Body, bias, and behaviour: a comparative analysis of reasoning in two areas of biological science / Helen E. Longino and Ruth Doell -- Pre-theoretical assumptions in evolutionary explanations of female sexuality / Elisabeth A. Lloyd -- The Egg and the sperm: how science has constructed a romance based on stereotypical male-female roles / Emily Martin -- Race and gender: the role of analogy in science / Nancy Leys Stepan -- Why mammals are called mammals: gender politics in eighteenth-century natural history / Londa Schiebinger -- Language and ideology in evolutionary theory: reading cultural norms into natural law / Evelyn Fox Keller -- Nuclear language and how we learned to pat the bomb / Carol Cohn -- The Mind's eye / Evelyn Fox Keller and Christine R. Grontkowski -- Though this be method, yet there is madness in it: paranoia and liberal epistemology / Naomi Scheman -- A Science of Mars or of Venus? / Mary Tiles -- Rethinking standpoint epistemology: what is 'strong objectivity'? / Sandra Harding -- Situated knowledges: the science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective / Donna Haraway -- Subjects, power, and knowledge: description and prescription in feminist philosophies of science / Helen E. Longino.
Local noteLittle-312536--305131024030M
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 280-284) and index.
LCCN 95045299
ISBN019875146X (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0198751451 (paper : alk. paper)