Science and Social Inequality

Sandra Harding is a professor of philosophy and women's studies in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at University of California, Los Angeles, and the author or editor of eleven books including The Science Question in Feminism, Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?, and Is Science Multicultural?

• Contents Preface Acknowledgments 1. Introduction: Science and Inequality Part I: The Social World of Scientific Research 2. Thinking about Race and Science 3. Seeing Ourselves as Others See Us: Multicutural and Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies 4. With Both Eyes Open: A World of Sciences 5. Feminist Science Studies: New Challenges and Opportunities 6. Discriminatory Epistemologies and Philosophies of Science 7. Feminist Science and Technology Studies at the Periphery of the Enlightenment 8. The New Production of Scientific Knowledge: Intellectual and Political Challenges Part II: Truth, Relativism, and Science's Political Unconscious 9. The Political Unconscious of Western Science 10. Are Truth Claims in Science Dysfunctional? 11. Does the Threat of Relativism Deserve a Panic? Notes Bibliography

"Harding has for decades set the terms of liberatory science studies that have moved the dialogues forward in substantial ways, and she continues to do so in her latest book."--Signs"[Harding] continues to be one of very few philosophers who has worked consistently and courageously to make science live up to both its epistemic and its emancipatory potential."--Philosophy in Review "Science and Social Inequality, a collection of foundational and innovative work from a leading thinker in feminist science studies, is valuable in many ways: as a reference work, as an historical overview of crucial debates in feminist science studies, and as a powerful contribution to current efforts to push those debates forward into new and vital territories."--NWSA Journal