Honors Seminar - Feminist Science Studies (Fall 2020)
USM Honors College
Feminist Science Studies (FSS) is a growing international field of study. Students curious about feminist studies access and marginalization in STEM disciplines, and questions about scientific knowledge-making will find this course of interest.
Drawing from multiple disciplines (e.g., feminist studies, philosophy, sociology, education, and anthropology to name a few), this course will explore the social, political, and cultural dynamics of scientific inquiry. We will ask, and attempt to answer, such questions as:
Drawing from multiple disciplines (e.g., feminist studies, philosophy, sociology, education, and anthropology to name a few), this course will explore the social, political, and cultural dynamics of scientific inquiry. We will ask, and attempt to answer, such questions as:
- What does scientific inquiry make un/intelligible?
- How does scientific inquiry shape conceptions of sex, gender, race, and knowledge?
- What can we learn from the stories, voices, and traditions of those marginalized within (and by) the field science?
- How do feminist modes of inquiry render new modes of thinking, knowing, and being “scientific” possible?
- What is at stake in such taken-for-granted binaries as (a) objectivity/subjectivity; (b) sex/gender; and (d) true/false?