Science ,Technology and Society

This preference for feminist virtues is a prioritization of certain values like liberty, autonomy, and responsibility. Since human agency is a capacity that is enhanced or diminished by favorable or adverse factors, her feminist concern for science is for safeguarding human agency in scientific endeavors including mainstream science.' what kind of approach to science might serve this objective?' “What are the scientific practices ,which incorporate a commitment to the liberation of women and the social and political equality of all persons ‘ (andiron 1995 a :51) .Since this enhancement model is obstructed by modern values of control ,Longino's version of feminist science opposes the Galilean/Baconian approach to mainstream science .The feminist approach is an alternate model of doinfg science differently that will identify the possibilities of agency enhancing conditions.

Opting for a feminist science then prioritizes intentional explanations in the domain of human behavior, more with belief, value, desire ,intention than underlying law ,process and structure of formal , deductive and mathematically oganised organization present in materialist theories.