Feminism and Methodology

Social Science Issues

Author: Sandra Harding

Winner of a Susan Koppelman Award, Women's Caucus of the Popular and American Culture Associations

Interrogates some of the classic essays from the last fifteen years of feminist social science literature

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Winner of a Susan Koppelman Award, Women's Caucus of the Popular and American Culture Associations

Interrogates some of the classic essays from the last fifteen years of feminist social science literature

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In this collection, Sandra Harding offers a broad spectrum of feminist research... an incisive introduction... With this collection, Harding offers an outline of possibilities to students and practicing social scientists whose questions lie outside the dominant traditions of inquiry... " -Harvard Educational Review

The quality of the essays, plus that of the introduction and collection, commend this book to both the reader who would explore these issues and she/he who would know more." -Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

In this collection, Sandra Harding interrogates some of the classic essays from the last fifteen years of feminist social science literature in order to explore the basic and troubling questions about science and social experience, gender, and politics which they raise. A valuable introduction to crucial methodological and epistemological issues.

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Winner of Winner of a Susan Koppelman Award, Women's Caucus of the Popular and American Culture Associations.
Winner of Winner of a Susan Koppelman Award, Women's Caucus of the Popular and American Culture Associations.

Critic Reviews

“"Sandra Harding's most recent anthology, Feminism and Methodology , comprises an excellent collection of essays focusing on feminist approaches to theory and research in the social sciences. . .This text is very readable, and will be accessible to undergraduates as well as graduates and useful in a variety of courses."-- Hypatia”

"Sandra Harding's most recent anthology, Feminism and Methodology, comprises an excellent collection of essays focusing on feminist approaches to theory and research in the social sciences. . .This text is very readable, and will be accessible to undergraduates as well as graduates and useful in a variety of courses."—Hypatia

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Appearing in the feminist social science literature from its beginnings are a series of questions about methodology. In this collection, Sandra Harding interrogates some of the classic essays from the last fifteen years in order to explore the basic and troubling questions about science and social experience, gender, and politics.