Science and Social Inequality: Feminist and Postcolonial Issues

by Sandra G. Harding, Anne Fausto-Sterling, Evelynn M. Hammonds

This series will contribute to debates within science about how gender and race can be used as analytic categories to explore a range of issues--"for example: the evolution and use of diverse cognitive styles, the privileging of certain forms of consensus and cognitive authority. In

Genres: Feminism, Science, Nonfiction, Gender

224 pages, Hardcover

First published January 3, 2006

About the author

Sandra G. Harding was an American philosopher of feminist and postcolonial theory, epistemology, research methodology, and philosophy of science. She directed the UCLA Center for the Study of Women from 1996 to 2000, and co-edited Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society from 2000 to 2005. Until her deceassed, she was a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Education and Gender Studies at UCLA and a Distinguished Affiliate Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State University. In 2013 she was awarded the John Desmond Bernal Prize by the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S).