Science ,Technology and Society

Is there epistemic link between gender and bias? Harding thinks so. That gendered bias is negative in the case of male orientation, positive in the case of female orientation.

Drawing from biological sciences, In her book Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? , Harding attempts to synthesize standpoint and postmodern feminist epistemologies. “ At this moment in history, our feminism need both Enlightenment and postmodern agendas-but we don't needs the same ones for the same purposes or in the same forms as do white, bourgeois, andocentric westerners “( Harding:1991). The subjects of knowledge in standpoint theory are embodied and visible in their social locations as communities of knowers that are multiple, heterogeneous, contradictory, and even incoherent. “Harding, in a more recent defense of standpoint theory, argues that marginalized lives should be the subject of scientific inquiry, not the solution to an epistemic problem. Harding suggests that, by combining feminist standpoint theory with postmodernism, we can overcome some of the limitations of the former. She believes there are many links between postmodernism and standpoint theory”.( Anderson : 2009).