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Asking Different Questions: Feminist Practices for the Natural Sciences

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Deboleena Roy
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Abstract

In this paper, Roy attempts to develop a semiprescriptive analysis for the natural sciences by examining more closely a skill that many feminist scientists have been reported to possess. Feminist scientists have often been lauded for their ability to “ask different questions.” Drawing from standpoint theory, strong objectivity, situated knowledges, agential realism, and the methodology of the oppressed, the author suggests that this skill can be articulated further into the feminist practice of research agenda choice. Roy illustrates the usefulness of developing such a practice by addressing her own dilemma of conducting in vitro research in a reproductive biology lab.

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Hypatia , Volume 23 , Issue 4 , December 2008, pp. 134 - 157
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Copyright © 2008 by Hypatia, Inc.

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