Feminism and Science (Oxford Readings in Feminism) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 019875146X ISBN 13: 9780198751465

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, 1996

Synopsis

A new series of seminal works in contemporary feminist theory

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About the Author

Evelyn Fox Keller is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science in the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of Refiguring Life: Metaphors of Twentieth-Century Biology (Columbia UP). Helen E. Longino teaches women's studies and philosophy at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Science as Social Knowledge: Values and Objectivity in Scientific Inquiry (Princeton UP, 1990).

From the Back Cover

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 019875146X
• ISBN 13: 9780198751465
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300
• Editor: Keller Evelyn Fox