Synopses & Reviews
"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.
Synopsis
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.
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
I. Introduction: Is There a Feminst Method?
Sandra Harding
II. The Social Relation of the Sexes: Methodological Implications of Women's History
Joan Kelly-Gadol
III. Introduction to Another Voice: Feminist Perspectives on Social Life and Social Science
Marcia Millman and Rosabeth Moss Kanter
IV. Bias in Psychology
Carolyn Wood Sherif
V. Woman's Place in Man's Life Cycle
Carol Gilligan
VI. Introduction Tomorrow's Tomorrow: The Black Woman
Joyce A. Ladner
VII. Women's Perspective as a Radical Critique of Sociology
Dorothy E. Smith
VIII. The Dialectics of Black Womanhood
Bonnie Thornton Dill
IX. The Family as the Locus of Gender, Class, and Political Struggle: The Example of Housework
Heidi I. Hartmann
X. Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: Toward Feminist Jurisprudence
Catherine A. MacKinnon
XI. The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialsim
Nancy C.M. Hartsock
XII. Conclusion: Epistemological Questions
Sandra Harding
Index of Names