Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? Thinking from Women's Lives

Harding, S. (1991). Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? Thinking from Women's Lives. Cornell University Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1991

DOI

10.7591/9781501712951

ISBN

9781501712951

DOI registrant

Cornell University Press

Link

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501712951

Cited from

philosophy

Cited by

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Primes

• Epistemic Justice
  • In feminist philosophy and standpoint theory

    This sourceDevelops feminist standpoint theory and 'strong objectivity', arguing marginalized social positions yield distinctive insight into power and inequality.

• Viewpoint
  • Algorithmic environments. A user's position in a recommendation graph determines their accessible information set and their occlusion set, often without their knowledge. Standpoint epistemology and clinical reasoning. Social position structurally enables and disables forms of knowledge, and the general practitioner, specialist, and patient each access different parts of a case.

Domain-specific

• Editorial Blind Spot
  • The concept also imports cleanly into journalism from neighboring scholarship that supplies the same vantage logic: the sociology of news (Tuchman's news net, Gans, Schudson on news as constructed rather than reflected) and standpoint epistemology (the structural position of the knower as a constraint on what is knowable)

    This sourceHarding's standpoint-epistemology material on 'strong objectivity' and socially situated knowledge.

    Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract

    “what is feminist epistemology strong objectivity and socially situated knowledge feminist epistemology in and after the enlightenment”

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Mechanisms

• Counter-Vantage Red Team
  • The rationale is standpoint epistemology

    This sourceDevelops standpoint epistemology as inquiry from marginalized lives that can reveal relations obscured from dominant positions.

• Stakeholder Meaning Elicitation
  • It rests on the premise of standpoint theory: knowledge of an arrangement is situated, and the driver knows things about "on-time" that the metric structurally cannot see.

    This sourcePresents standpoint theory as holding that knowledge is socially situated and appears differently from differently positioned lives.

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