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Book SynopsisCollects works that address key challenges for a feminist approach to knowledge and scientific practice. This title is suitable for both students and scholars of feminist epistemology and philosophy of science. It offers a mix of contributions from well-established feminist scholars and the next generation of feminist epistemologists.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science in the Twenty-first Century; Heidi E. Grasswick.- I Intersections: Feminism, Epistemology, and Science Studies.- 1. The Marginalization of Feminist Epistemology and What That Reveals About Epistemology ‘Proper’; Phyllis Rooney.- 2. Contextualism in Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science; Kristina Rolin.- 3. Altogether Now: A Virtue-theoretic Approach to Pluralism in Feminist Epistemology; Nancy Daukas.- 4. The Implications of the New Materialisms for Feminist Epistemology; Samantha Frost.- 5. Interrogating the Modernity vs. Tradition Contrast: Whose Science and Technology for Whose Social Progress?; Sandra Harding.- II Democracy and Diversity in Knowledge Practices.- 6. Is Millian Democratic Science the Right Model for Feminist Science?; Kristen Intemann.- 7. What’s in it for me? The Benefits of Diversity in Scientific Communities; Carla Fehr.- 8. What Knowers Know Well: Women, Work and the Academy; Alison Wylie.- III Contexts of Oppression: Accountability in Knowing.- 9. More than Skin Deep: Situated Communities and the Case of Agent Orange in the Aluoi Valley, Viet Nam; Nancy McHugh.- 10. ‘They Treated Him Well’: Fact, Fiction, and the Politics of Knowledge; Lorraine Code.- 11. Wrongful Requests and Strategic Refusals to Understand; Gaile Pohlhaus, Jr.- 12. Liberatory Epistemology and Sharing Knowledge: Querying the Norms; Heidi E. Grasswick.- Index.
