Sandra Harding Lecture: Can Women Ever Become Modern?
Mandel Center, Room 115, CWRU
April 17, 2008
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Sandra Harding: Can Women Ever Become Modern?
New Directions in Thinking about Gender, Science and Modernity
April 17, 4:15-6:30
Mandel Center, Room 115
The familiar response to this question is that women already are modern in developed, industrialized societies; it is to be hoped that the rest of the world’s women, and their brothers, join them as rapidly as possible. Yet critics point out that modernity, its sciences and their philosophies, have invariably been defined against whatever counts as feminine and “primitive.” Are they right? If so, what is to be done?
Dr. Sandra Harding is the author or editor of fifteen books and special journal issues, including Sciences from Below: Gender, Imperialism, and Modernity (2008). Harding’s groundbreaking work in The Science Question in Feminism (1986) and Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? (1991) has made these books classics in the philosophy of science. Harding taught at the University of Delaware prior to joining the faculty at UCLA and is a philosopher of science. She directed the UCLA Center for the Study of Women for almost five years, and co-edited Signs: A Journal of Women in Culture and Society, one of the most prestigious journals in Women’s Studies. Harding has lectured at over 200 universities and conferences around the world.
Co-sponsored by NSF-ACES, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Philosophy Department, and the Program in Women’s and Gender Studies, and College Scholars. Harding is coming to us via a grant from the national association of Phi Beta Kappa, which covers some of the expenses of the visit.
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