ISBN:
9786613062123
,
0822381184
,
9781283062121
,
9780822381181
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (283 S.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Next wave: New directions in women's studies
Parallel Title:
Print version Sciences from Below : Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities
DDC:
306.4/5
Keywords:
Women in science
;
Feminist theory
;
Philosophy History
;
Civilization, Modern
;
Science Philosophy
;
Science Social aspects
;
Technology Philosophy
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
A preeminent science studies scholar shows how feminist and postcolonial science studies challenge the problematic modernity versus tradition binary
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; 8. Haunted Modernities, Gendered Traditions; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Why Focus on Modernity?; I. Problems with Modernity's Science and Politics; 1. Modernity's Misleading Dream: Latour; 2. The Incomplete First Modernity of Industrial Society: Beck; 3. Co-evolving Science and Society: Gibbons, Nowotny, and Scott; II. Views From (Western) Modernity's Peripheries; 4. Women as Subjects of History and Knowledge; 5. Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies: Are There Multiple Sciences?; 6. Women on Modernity's Horizons: Feminist Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies
Description / Table of Contents:
III. Interrogating Tradition: Challenges and Possibilities7. Multiple Modernities: Postcolonial Standpoints; 9. Moving On: A Methodological Provocation; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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