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Revision as of 08:24, 6 March 2006 by Gargletheape (talk | contribs) (added 'rape manual')(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Sandra Harding (born 1935), is an American philosopher of feminist and postcolonial theory, epistemology, research methodology and philosophy of science. She has contributed to standpoint theory and to the multicultural study of science. She gained some notoriety for seeming to refer to Newton's Laws as a rape manual.
She is currently a professor of Social Sciences and Comparative Education at UCLA, and the Director of the UCLA Center for the Study of Women. Harding previously taught at the University of Delaware for many years. She earned her PhD from New York University (NYU). Harding was married to the philosopher Harold Morick, though the two are now long divorced.
Bibliography
- Harding, Sandra. The Science Question in Feminism. 1986.
- Harding, Sandra. Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?: Thinking from Women's Lives. 1991.
- Harding, Sandra and Jean F. O'Barr, ed. Sex and Scientific Inquiry. 1987.
- Harding, Sandra and Merrill B. Hintikka, ed. Discovering Reality: Feminist Perspectives on Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science. 1983.
External links
- Starting from Marginalized Lives: A Conversation with Sandra Harding
- Who’s Sandra Harding? Where’s She Standing?