Science and Social Inequality: Feminist and Postcolonial Issues
In: Race and Gender in Science Series
Intro -- Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Science and Inequality: Controversial Issues -- Controversial Issues -- Do Sciences and their Philosophies have a "Political Unconscious"? -- Which Philosophies of Science are Adequate for a World of Sciences? -- Nature and Culture -- The New Organization of Scientific Inquiry -- Scientific Accountability and Responsibility: from Science as Representation to Science as Practice -- Some Terminological Challenges -- The Importance of Controversy about Science and Society -- Part 1: The Social World of Scientific Research -- 1: Thinking about Race and Science -- Is Science Racist? -- Defenses of Racist Scientific Practices -- Natural Racial Types? -- The Racist Misuse and abuse of sciences and their applications and technologies -- Racist Social Structures in the Sciences -- A World of Sciences: Race, Culture, and Empire -- Conclusion: The Radical Role of Antiracist Resistance -- 2: Seeing Ourselves as Others See Us: Postcolonial Science Studies -- "Would the Gift the Genie Give Us …" -- Are the Natural Sciences Multicultural? -- Does Modern Science have Non-Western Origins? -- Could there be Other Culturally Distinctive Sciences that Work? -- Is Modern Science Culturally "Western"? -- Other Modern Sciences? -- 3: With Both Eyes Open: A World of Sciences -- One Planet, Many Sciences? -- Projects Starting in the Global South -- Integrate Other Sciences into Western Sciences -- Delinking -- Integrate Northern Sciences into Other Sciences -- Southern Models for Northern Sciences -- Projects Starting in the North -- 4: Northern Feminist Science Studies: New Challenges and Opportunities -- Feminist Science and Technology Studies in the Global North -- Surviving Discriminatory Social Structures.