Science and social inequality : feminist and postcolonial issues / Sandra Harding.

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2006], ©2006.

xiii, 205 pages ; 24 cm.

Introduction : science and inequality -- The social world of scientific research -- Thinking about race and science -- Seeing ourselves as others see us : postcolonial science studies -- With both eyes open : a world of sciences -- Northern feminist science studies : new challenges and opportunities -- Discriminatory epistemologies and philosophies of science -- Feminist science and technology studies at the periphery of the enlightenment -- Truth, relativism, and science's political unconscious -- The political unconscious of Western science -- Are truth claims in science dysfunctional? -- Does the threat of relativism deserve a panic?

Includes bibliographical references (p. [157]-198) and index.