2. Feminism Confronts the Sciences: Reform and Transformation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. I. Introduction: After the Science Question in Feminism 1
5. I. Science
6. 2. Feminism Confronts the Sciences: Reform and Transformation 19
7. 3. How the Women's Movement Benefits Science: Two Views 51
8. 4. Why "Physics" Is a Bad Model for Physics 77
9. II. Epistemology
10. 5. What Is Feminist Epistemology? 105
11. 6. "Strong Objectivity" and Socially Situated Knowledge 138
12. 7. Feminist Epistemology in and after the Enlightenment 164
13. III. "Others"
14. 8. ". . . and Race"? Toward the Science Question in Global Feminisms 191
15. 9. Common Histories, Common Destinies: Science in the First and Third Worlds 218
16. 10. Thinking from the Perspective of Lesbian Lives 249
17. 11. Reinventing Ourselves as Other: More New Agents of History and Knowledge 268
18. 12. Conclusion: What Is Feminist Science? 296
19. Index 313