{"product_id":"sciences-from-below-feminisms-postcolonialities-and-modernities-paperback-1","title":"Sciences from Below: Feminisms, Postcolonialities, and Modernities - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSandra Harding\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSciences from Below\u003c\/i\u003e, the esteemed feminist science studies scholar Sandra Harding synthesizes modernity studies with progressive tendencies in science and technology studies to suggest how scientific and technological pursuits might be more productively linked to social justice projects around the world. Harding illuminates the idea of multiple modernities as well as the major contributions of post-Kuhnian Western, feminist, and postcolonial science studies. She explains how these schools of thought can help those seeking to implement progressive social projects refine their thinking to overcome limiting ideas about what modernity and modernization are, the objectivity of scientific knowledge, patriarchy, and Eurocentricity. She also reveals how ideas about gender and colonialism frame the conventional contrast between modernity and tradition. As she has done before, Harding points the way forward in \u003ci\u003eSciences from Below\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDescribing the work of the post-Kuhnian science studies scholars Bruno Latour, Ulrich Beck, and the team of Michael Gibbons, Helga Nowtony, and Peter Scott, Harding reveals how, from different perspectives, they provide useful resources for rethinking the modernity versus tradition binary and its effects on the production of scientific knowledge. Yet, for the most part, they do not take feminist or postcolonial critiques into account. As Harding demonstrates, feminist science studies and postcolonial science studies have vital contributions to make; they bring to light not only the male supremacist investments in the Western conception of modernity and the historical and epistemological bases of Western science but also the empirical knowledge traditions of the global South. \u003ci\u003eSciences from Below\u003c\/i\u003e is a clear and compelling argument that modernity studies and post-Kuhnian, feminist, and postcolonial sciences studies each have something important, and necessary, to offer to those formulating socially progressive scientific research and policy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSandra Harding fills significant gaps in three crucial, overlapping, yet strangely independent scholarly literatures on science and technology: feminist analyses of science, traditional\" science and technology studies, and postcolonial science studies. This is a unifying and strengthening project of great significance both practically (for the future of science throughout the world) and within academe.\"--Anne Fausto-Sterling, author of \"Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSandra Harding is Professor of Women's Studies and Education at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her many books include \u003ci\u003eScience and Social Inequality: Feminist and Postcolonial Issues\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eThe Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader: Intellectual and Political Controversies\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eScience and Other Cultures: Issues in Philosophies of Science and Technology\u003c\/i\u003e (coedited with Robert Figueroa); \u003ci\u003eIs Science Multicultural? Postcolonialisms, Feminisms, and Epistemologies\u003c\/i\u003e; and \u003ci\u003eWhose Science? Whose Knowledge? Thinking from Women's Lives\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 296\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.83 x 9.34 x 6.01 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e July 01, 2008\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47380031176953,"sku":"9780822342823","price":56.63,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/U0l4bGp1Y0hJcVBNZnZaOHRuR1ZlZz09_3d4af8ab-da05-4b96-82ca-a70535e31fd3.webp?v=1770060051","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/sciences-from-below-feminisms-postcolonialities-and-modernities-paperback-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}