Feminism and science / edited by Evelyn Fox Keller and Helen E. Longino.
"(Series copy); The new Oxford Readings in Feminism series maps the dramatic influence of feminist theory on every branch of academic knowledge. Offering feminist perspectives on disciplines from history to science, each book assembles the most important articles written on its field in the las...
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Oxford ; New York :
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1996.
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Table of 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.