ABSTRACT
This section of this volume is concerned with philosophy (including epistemology), technoscience and the military. In the chapters which follow, the contributors critically ponder where women have stood and where feminists could stand in these worlds. In many respects these have been alien territories for women. Indeed, even now, on the cusp of the twenty-first century, and despite equal opportunities policies and special initiatives in many countries, the corridors of power associated with philosophy, technoscience and the military are still dominated by men; their higher echelons of power are still largely, in David Noble’s (1992) words, ‘world[s] without women’. Since the late 1960s, feminists have drawn attention to the sexual division of labour in these fields and traced its consequences. Their analytical forays have informed and spurred different strategies, most notably: critiques and condemnations of some of the activities and values associated with these fields; recovery of ‘feminist worthies’ (Harding 1991: 21–25) who have made notable contributions to these areas, and rewritings of their histories; and struggles over access.
