Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-280) and index.
Contents
Why focus on modernity? -- Problems with modernity's science and politics -- Modernity's misleading dream -- The incomplete first modernity of industrial society -- Co-evolving science and society -- Views from (Western) modernity's peripheries -- Women as subjects of history and knowledge -- Postcolonial science and technology studies : are there multiple sciences? -- Women on modernity's horizons : feminist postcolonial science and technology studies -- Interrogating tradition : challenges and possibilities -- Multiple modernities : postcolonial standpoints -- Haunted modernities, gendered traditions -- Moving on : a methodological provocation.