{"product_id":"whose-science-whose-knowledge-9780801497469","title":"Whose Science Whose Knowledge","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSandra Harding here develops further the themes first addressed in her widely influential book, The Science Question in Feminism, and conducts a compelling analysis of feminist theories on the philosophical problem of how we know what we...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhose Science, Whose Knowledge?\u003c\/i\u003e represents a transition from gender to power considerations in Harding's continuous efforts to raise questions about the theory and practice of science.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Shulamit Reinharz * Gender \u0026amp; Society *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eHarding's account offers a good insight into a variety of feminist responses to the hegemony apparently exercised by scientific thinking. Some readers will take the book as a challenge to the sociology of science to examine its arguments and assumptions in the light of standpoint theory and feminist postmodernism.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Steven Yearley * British Journal of Sociology *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is an important book that has much to offer practicing scientists but probably will not be read by many of them. That is a shame, because its bold claims are usefully unsettling and its argument begs for engagement. One of the basic messages of \u003ci\u003eWhose Science? Whose Knowledge?\u003c\/i\u003e—that all fields of natural science are best analyzed from within the social sciences, of which they are logically a part, rather than taken as external models for the social sciences—has potential consequences for most, perhaps all, scientific practice.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Rayna Rapp, New School for Social Research * Science *","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405179855191,"sku":"9780801497469","price":24.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801497469.jpg?v=1730489004","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/whose-science-whose-knowledge-9780801497469","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}