Author: Oakley, Ann
Title: Experiments in Knowing: Gender and Method in the Social Sciences
Description: New York, The New Press, (2000). orig.boards. 23x15cm, viii,402 pp. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Modern Problems: Who Knows? Paradigm Wars; Hearing the Grass Grow; A Brief History of Methodology: Cartesian Nightmares; Mean Values; Imagining Social Science; Chance is a Fine Thing; Experiments and their Enemies: Experimental Sociology: The Early Years; Of NITs and LIFE & Other Things; Lessons from America; The Rights of Animals & Other Creatures; People's Ways of Knowing; Challenges of an Experimenting Society.

Keywords: Theory of Knowledge, Social Sciences, Methodology, Feminism, Gender, Method, Feminist, Philosophy, Sociology