Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?

Introduction

In this book of 1991 Harding develops the standpoint theory she had outlined in The Science Question in Feminism. Her key concept, “strong objectivity”, holds that the usual idea of objectivity is too weak: it controls the biases of individual researchers but not the assumptions shared by a whole scientific community. Starting research from the lives of those who have been excluded – women, people of colour, people in the global South – brings such shared assumptions into view and so makes results more objective, not less. Harding also discusses race, the European history of modern science and anti-colonial critiques of science, themes she continued in Is Science Multicultural? (1998).

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• The Science Question in Feminism1986 · Sandra Harding

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