Feminism And Science
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Feminism And Science
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Author : Evelyn Fox Keller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
Feminism And Science written by Evelyn Fox Keller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Feminist theory categories.
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 scientists 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 17 outstanding articles in this volume reflect the diversity and strengths of feminist contributions to current thinking about science.
The Science Question In Feminism
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Author : Sandra G. Harding
language : en
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Release Date : 1986
The Science Question In Feminism written by Sandra G. Harding and has been published by Cornell University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Philosophy categories.
Can science, steeped in Western, masculine, bourgeois endeavors, nevertheless be used for emancipatory ends? In this major contribution to the debate over the role gender plays in the scientific enterprise, Sandra Harding pursues that question, challenging the intellectual and social foundations of scientific thought. Harding provides the first comprehensive and critical survey of the feminist science critiques, and examines inquiries into the androcentricism that has endured since the birth of modern science. Harding critiques three epistemological approaches: feminist empiricism, which identifies only bad science as the problem; the feminist standpoint, which holds that women's social experience provides a unique starting point for discovering masculine bias in science; and feminist postmodernism, which disputes the most basic scientific assumptions. She points out the tensions among these stances and the inadequate concepts that inform their analyses, yet maintains that the critical discourse they foster is vital to the quest for a science informed by emancipatory morals and politics.
Has Feminism Changed Science
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Author : Londa L. Schiebinger
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999-05-28
Has Feminism Changed Science written by Londa L. Schiebinger and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-05-28 with Science categories.
Do women do science differently? This is a history of women in science and a frank assessment of the role of gender in shaping scientific knowledge. Londa Schiebinger looks at how women have fared and performed in both instances.
Data Feminism
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Author : Catherine D'Ignazio
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2023-10-03
Data Feminism written by Catherine D'Ignazio and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-03 with Social Science categories.
Cutting edge strategies for thinking about data science and data ethics through an intersectional feminist lens. “Without ever finger-wagging, Data Feminism reveals inequities and offers a way out of a broken system in which the numbers are allowed to lie.”—WIRED Today, data science is a form of power. It has been used to expose injustice, improve health outcomes, and topple governments. But it has also been used to discriminate, police, and surveil. This potential for good, on the one hand, and harm, on the other, makes it essential to ask: Data science by whom? Data science for whom? Data science with whose interests in mind? The narratives around big data and data science are overwhelmingly white, male, and techno-heroic. In Data Feminism, Catherine D'Ignazio and Lauren Klein present a new way of thinking about data science and data ethics—one that is informed by intersectional feminist thought. Illustrating data feminism in action, D'Ignazio and Klein show how challenges to the male/female binary can help challenge other hierarchical (and empirically wrong) classification systems. They explain how, for example, an understanding of emotion can expand our ideas about effective data visualization, and how the concept of invisible labor can expose the significant human efforts required by our automated systems. And they show why the data never, ever “speak for themselves.” Data Feminism offers strategies for data scientists seeking to learn how feminism can help them work toward justice, and for feminists who want to focus their efforts on the growing field of data science. But Data Feminism is about much more than gender. It is about power, about who has it and who doesn't, and about how those differentials of power can be challenged and changed.
Cyberpunk Women Feminism And Science Fiction
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Author : Carlen Lavigne
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2013-02-07
Cyberpunk Women Feminism And Science Fiction written by Carlen Lavigne and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
This analysis of cyberpunk science fiction written between 1981 and 2003 positions women's cyberpunk in the larger cultural discussion of feminist issues. It traces the origins of the genre, reviews the critical reactions and outlines the ways in which women's cyberpunk advances points of view that are specifically feminist. Novels are examined within their cultural contexts; their content is compared to broader controversies within contemporary feminism, and their themes are revealed as reflections of feminist discourse around the turn of the 21st century. Chapters cover topics such as globalization, virtual reality, cyborg culture, environmentalism, religion, motherhood and queer rights. Interviews with feminist cyberpunk authors are provided, revealing both their motivations for writing and their experiences with fans. The study treats feminist cyberpunk as a unique vehicle for examining contemporary women's issues and analyzes feminist science fiction as a complex source of political ideas.
Darwinian Feminism And Early Science Fiction
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Author : Patrick B Sharp
language : en
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Release Date : 2018-03-28
Darwinian Feminism And Early Science Fiction written by Patrick B Sharp and has been published by University of Wales Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-28 with Literary Criticism categories.
Darwinian Feminism in Early Science Fiction provides the first detailed scholarly examination of women’s SF in the early magazine period before the Second World War. Tracing the tradition of women’s SF back to the 1600s, the author demonstrates how women such as Margaret Cavendish and Mary Shelley drew critical attention to the colonial mindset of scientific masculinity, which was attached to scientific institutions that excluded women. In the late nineteenth century, Charles Darwin’s theory of sexual selection provided an impetus for a number of first-wave feminists to imagine Amazonian worlds where women control their own bodies, relationships and destinies. Patrick B. Sharp traces how these feminist visions of scientific femininity, Amazonian power and evolutionary progress proved influential on many women publishing in the SF magazines of the late 1920s and early 1930s, and presents a compelling picture of the emergence to prominence of feminist SF in the early twentieth century before vanishing until the 1960s.
Feminism And The Biological Body
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Author : Lynda Birke
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2019-06-01
Feminism And The Biological Body written by Lynda Birke and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-01 with Social Science categories.
Biological bodies always seem to drop out of debates about the body and its importance in western culture. They are assumed to be fixed, their workings irrelevant to theory. This text argues that these views of biology do not serve feminist politics well.
Feminism And Philosophy Of Science
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Author : Elizabeth Potter
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2006-04-18
Feminism And Philosophy Of Science written by Elizabeth Potter and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-18 with Philosophy categories.
Reflecting upon the recent growth of interest in feminist ideas of philosophy of science, this book traces the development of the subject within the confines of feminist philosophy. It is designed to introduce the newcomer to the main ideas that form the subject area with a view to equipping students with all the major arguments and standpoints required to understand this burgeoning area of study. Arranged thematically, the book looks at the spectrum of views that have arisen in the debate. It is broadly arranged into sections dealing with concepts such as the notion of value free-science, values, objectivity, point of view and relativism, but also details the many subsidiary ideas that have sprung from these topics.
Feminism And Science
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Author : Nancy Tuana
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1989-11-22
Feminism And Science written by Nancy Tuana and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-11-22 with Social Science categories.
"... thoughtful critiques of the myriad issues between women and science." -- Belles Lettres "Outstanding collection of essays that raise the fundamental questions of gender in what we have been taught are objective sciences." -- WATERwheel "... all of the articles are well written, informative, and convincing. Admirable editorial work makes this anthology unusually helpful for scholars and students... Highly recommended... " -- Choice Questioning the objectivity of scientific inquiry, this volume addresses the scope of gender bias in science. The contributors examine the ways in which science is affected by and reinforces sexist biases. The essays reveal science to be a cultural institution, structured by the political, social, and economic values of the culture within which it is practiced.
Feminist Epistemology And Philosophy Of Science
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Author : Heidi E. Grasswick
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2011-05-16
Feminist Epistemology And Philosophy Of Science written by Heidi E. Grasswick and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-16 with Philosophy categories.
Having enjoyed more than twenty years of development, feminist epistemology and philosophy of science are now thriving fields of inquiry, offering current scholars a rich tradition from which to draw. In addition to a recognition of the power of knowledge itself and its effects on women’s lives, a central feature of feminist epistemology and philosophy of science has been the attention they draw to the role of power dynamics within knowledge-seeking practices and the implications of these dynamics for our understandings of knowledge, science, and epistemology. Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science: Power in Knowledge collects new works that address today’s key challenges for a power-sensitive feminist approach to questions of knowledge and scientific practice. The essays build upon established work in feminist epistemology and philosophy of science, offering new developments in the fields, and representing the broad array of the feminist work now being done and the many ways in which feminists incorporate power dynamics into their analyses.