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Sandra
Harding is a Professor of Education and Women's Studies at the University of
California, Los Angeles.
She is a philosopher, and taught for two decades at the University of Delaware
before joining UCLA in 1996.
At UCLA she directed the UCLA Center for the Study of Women for 5 years, and
currently co-edits Signs: Journal
of Women in Culture and Society.
Professor Harding is a pioneer in the fields
of feminist theory and the philosophy
of science, and the author or editor of a dozen books and special journal issues,
including Feminism and Methodology:
Social Science Issues (1987), Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? Thinking From
Women's Lives (1991), The
'Racial' Economy of Science: Toward a Democratic Future (1993), Science and
Other Cultures: Issues in Philosophies
of Science & Technology (2003), and The Feminist Standpoint Reader: Intellectual
and Political Controversies (2003).
She has lectured at over 200 universities and conferences around the world and has been a Visiting Professor at the University of Amsterdam, the University of Costa Rica, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology. She has been a consultant to several United Nations organizations including the Pan-American Health Organization, UNESCO, the U.N. Development Fund for Women, and the U.N. Commission on Science and Technology for Development.

College of Education, University of Washington
Box 353600 Seattle, WA 98195-3600
coe@u.washington.edu