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 Info | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1996. |
| Description | vii, 289 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Cover title | Feminism & science |
| Series | Oxford 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 note | Little-312536--305131024030M |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. 280-284) and index. |
| LCCN | 95045299 |
| ISBN | 019875146X (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0198751451 (paper : alk. paper) |