TY - BOOK ID - 5471417 TI - Sciences from below : feminisms, postcolonialities, and modernities PY - 2008 SN - 9780822342823 9780822342595 PB - Durham : Duke University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Science KW - Women in science KW - Sciences KW - Femmes dans les sciences KW - Social aspects KW - Philosophy KW - Aspect social KW - Philosophie KW - Civilization, Modern. KW - Feminist theory. KW - Technology KW - Women in science. KW - History. KW - Philosophy. KW - Social aspects. KW - Sciences et société. KW - Philosophie des sciences KW - Philosophie de la technique. KW - Femmes dans les sciences. KW - Histoire. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5471417 AB - In Sciences from Below, 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 Sciences from Below. ER -