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Gender, Development, and Post-Enlightenment Philosophies of Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Abstract

Recent “gender, environment, and sustainable development” accounts raise pointed questions about the complicity of Enlightenment philosophies of science with failures of Third World development policies and the current environmental crisis. The strengths of these analyses come from distinctive ways they link androcentric, economistic, and nature-blind aspects of development thinking to “the Enlightenment dream.” In doing so they share perspectives with and provide resources for other influential schools of science studies.

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Copyright © 1998 by Hypatia, Inc.

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