Sciences from below : feminisms, postcolonialities, and modernities / Sandra Harding.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Harding, Sandra G.
Language:English
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2008.
Series:Next wave (Duke University Press)
Subjects:
Science > Social aspects.
Science > Philosophy.
Technology > Philosophy.
Philosophy > History.
Civilization, Modern.
Women in science.
Feminist theory.
Physical Description:283 pages ; 24 cm.
Format: Book
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 : are there multiple sciences?
  • Women on modernity's horizons : feminist postcolonial science and technology studies
  • Interrogating tradition : challenges and possibilities
  • Multiple modernities : postcolonial standpoints
  • Haunted modernities, gendered traditions
  • Moving on : a methodological provocation.