A Review Essay

Bibliographic Data

ID14833008
AuthorsJacquelyn N Zita (corresponding author)
Year1988
Volume3
Issue1
Pages157-168
Publication date1988-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueHypatia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0887-5367 • E-ISSN: 1527-2001
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/j.1527-2001.1988.tb00061.x
OpenAlexW3193172106
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited10

This essay is a critical review of Sandra Harding's The Science Question in Feminism . Her text constitutes a monumental effort to capture an overview of recent feminist critique of science and to develop a feminist dialectical and materialist conception of the history of masculinist science. In this analysis of Harding's work, the organizing categories as well as the main assumptions of the text are reconstructed for closer examination within the context of modern feminist critique of science and feminist theory in general. Although a postive review of Harding's text is presented, questions are raised concerning the adequacy of socialist feminist assumptions for such a project, the limitations of Harding's theorization of gender, and the appropriateness of “postmodernism” as a final category of residence

Dialectic · Epistemology · Feminism · Materialism · Postmodernism · Sociology · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · History · Philosophy · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment

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