Whose science? Whose knowledge? : [electronic resource] thinking from women's lives / Sandra Harding.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: after the science question in feminism -- Feminism confronts the sciences: reform and transformation -- How the women's movement benefits science: two views -- Why "physics" is a bad model for physics -- What is feminist epistemology? -- "Strong objectivity" and socially situated knowledge -- Feminist epistemology in and after the Enlightenment -- "...and race"? toward the science question in global feminisms -- Common histories, common destinies: science in the first and third worlds -- Thinking from the perspective of lesbian lives -- Reinventing ourselves as other: more new agents of history and knowledge -- Conclusion: what is feminist science?.