Feminism and Methodology Social Science Issues [Paperback]

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.

Preface
Acknowledgments

I. Introduction: Is There a Feminst Method?
Sandra Harding

II. The Social Relation of the Sexes: Methodological Implications of Womens 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. Womans Place in Mans Life Cycle
Carol Gilligan

VI. Introduction Tomorrows Tomorrow: The Black Woman
Joyce A. Ladner

VII. Womens 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 Fel³4