Sciences from Below

Reviews / Votes

"It seems that a work of this nature is long overdue and, will significantly improve the communication between modernity theorists and those working in feminist or postcolonial studies." - Carolyn Anderson, Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith "This is an ambitious and impressive book. . . . Harding's book is a significant contribution to the literature on science, feminism, and postcoloniality. It is certainly a step in the direction of the transformation of science and politics that is Harding's goal." - Susan Hekman, Contemporary Sociology "Sciences from Below is a brilliant synthesis of three approaches to science and technology studies and a call for increased exchange between
them." - Nancy Tuana, Isis "[T]he philosophical-and human-imperatives that led [Harding] to write this book are extremely important, and the book itself opens possibilities that philosophers must explore." - Emily R. Grosholz, Women's Review of Books "[A] stunning synthesis of research from post-positivist, feminist, and postcolonial science studies scholars." - Bonnie Shulman, Technology and Culture "Sciences from Below is a splendid book. Sandra Harding's project of intellectual integration, bringing together some of the most influential literatures on modernity, science, and feminism, is a welcome, much-needed project. Her project is needed because the social justice movements need synthetic scholarship, and it is needed because there is an academic tower of Babel with few translators."-Hilary Rose, author of Love, Power, and Knowledge: Towards a Feminist Transformation of the Sciences

"Sandra Harding fills significant gaps in three crucial, overlapping, yet strangely independent scholarly literatures on science and technology: feminist analyses of science, "traditional" science and technology studies, and postcolonial science studies. This is a unifying and strengthening project of great significance both practically (for the future of science throughout the world) and within academe."-Anne Fausto-Sterling, author of Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality "Sandra Harding's voice is one of the most important in the science and technology studies field. With Sciences from Below, she opens up a broad vista, one in which the entire field of social movements and alternative visions of modernity is gendered."-David J. Hess, Professor of Science and Technology Studies and Director of the Program in Ecological Economics, Values, and Policy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute "Sciences from Below is a brilliant synthesis of three approaches to science and technology studies and a call for increased exchange between
them." - Nancy Tuana (Isis) "[A] stunning synthesis of research from post-positivist, feminist, and postcolonial science studies scholars." - Bonnie Shulman (Technology and Culture) "[T]he philosophical-and human-imperatives that led [Harding] to write this book are extremely important, and the book itself opens possibilities that philosophers must explore." - Emily R. Grosholz (Women's Review of Books) "It seems that a work of this nature is long overdue and, will significantly improve the communication between modernity theorists and those working in feminist or postcolonial studies." - Carolyn Anderson (Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith) "This is an ambitious and impressive book. . . . Harding's book is a significant contribution to the literature on science, feminism, and postcoloniality. It is certainly a step in the direction of the transformation of science and politics that is Harding's goal." - Susan Hekman (Contemporary Sociology)