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Science, Facts, and Feminism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Ruth Hubbard
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Abstract

Feminists acknowledge that making science is a social process and that scientific laws and the “facts” of science reflect the interests of the university-educated, economically privileged, predominantly white men who have produced them. We also recognize that knowledge about nature is created by an interplay between objectivity and subjectivity, but we often do not credit sufficiently the ways women's traditional activities in home, garden, and sickroom have contributed to understanding nature.

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Hypatia , Volume 3 , Issue 1: Special Issue: Feminism and Science, Part 2 , Spring 1988, pp. 5 - 17
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Copyright © 1988 by Hypatia, Inc.

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