Experiments in Knowing: Gender and Method in the Social Sciences Contributor(s): Oakley, Ann (Author) |
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ISBN: 1565846206 ISBN-13: 9781565846203 Publisher: New Press
Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: September 2000 Annotation: A leading feminist scholar's breakthrough study of gender bias in the social sciences. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Feminism & Feminist Theory - Social Science | Methodology - Social Science | Gender Studies |
Dewey: 305.420 |
LCCN: 00036163 |
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.46" W x 9.42" L (1.64 lbs) 402 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
Features: Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents |
Review Citations: Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2000 pg. 99 |
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Publisher Description: Ann Oakley came to widespread attention as part of the new school of British feminists to emerge in the 1960s, and has since earned a reputation as one of the most innovative feminist thinkers and social scientists writing today. In Experiments in Knowing, a major new work, Oakley integrates her personal and professional thinking to examine the historical development of methodology in the social and natural sciences, demonstrating how both fields have been subject to a process of gendering. Oakley not only reconciles the long-standing opposition between the quantitative and the qualitative methods but shows that the experimental and intuitive approaches must be used in tandem to provide a full understanding of any subject of scientific inquiry. Written in accessible language, Experiments in Knowing addresses themes of common interest across such diverse fields as social policy, education, health, and women's studies. Certain to generate considerable debate, it is both a fascinating history of the practice of social science from a feminist perspective, as well as an argument for a new way of thinking about our ways of knowing. |
Contributor Bio(s): Oakley, Ann: - Ann Oakley is a professor of sociology at the University of London. Her previous books include Gender on Planet Earth and Experiments in Knowing (both published by The New Press), The Men's Room, The Captured Womb, Subject Women, Becoming a Mother, Woman's Work, The Sociology of Housework, and Sex, Gender and Society. |
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