SOSC 1502 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Gustave Le Bon, Margaret Sanger, Maria Montessori
22 Nov 2013
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Grewal and kaplan introductory essay to part one. One of the primary hallmarks of western science is the division of the world between nature and culture. In this division, nature stands for the untouched and unchanging natural world, while culture stands for changing ways of human beings across time and space. Europe gained power and authority through the new sciences that supported entire new industries and technologies. The new science opposed practices of magic and superstition, marking anything that was not seen as rational as unscientific and false. Feminist scientists historicize their fields not to discredit science and medicine but to help us see that these fields are always produced by people by human beings- who are neutral, objective, or uninvested in what they do. All science tries to solve problems or raise new questions by identifying new problems to explore. But problems or questions are cultural; they are human made that is political.
