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Introduction: Why Focus on Modernity? 1
I. Problems with Modernity's Science and Politics: Perspectives from Northern Science Studies
1. Modernity's Misleading Dream: Latour 23
2. The Incomplete First Modernity of Industrial Society: Beck 49
3. Co-evoloving Science and Society: Gibbons, Nowotny, and Scott 75
II. Views from (Western) Modernity's Peripheries
4. Women as Subjects of History and Knowledge 101
5. Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies: Are There Multiple Sciences? 130
6. Women on Modernity's Horizons: Feminist Postcolonial Science and Technology Studies 155
III. Interrogating Tradition: Challenges and Possibilities
7. Multiple Modernities: Postcolonial Standpoints 173
8. Haunted Modernities, Gendered Traditions 191
9. Moving On: A Methodological Provocation 214
Notes 235
Bibliography 257
Index 281
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