The feminist methodology in research is explained by discussing the various strands of feminism and bringing out the distinction between method and methodology.
Science as a way of knowing has advantages over other ways of knowing, but it also has certain limitations due to some underlying assumptions. Embedded in society, science is unavoidably affected by social conditions.
I found the column “The Pottery of Physics” by Kamala Mukunda and Venkatesh Onkar (EPW, 2 December 2017) to be an extremely interesting observation about the neglect of ways of learning other than the so-called “academic” learning.
Sociologist, scholar, author and former guest editor of the Economic & Political Weekly's "Review of Women's Studies," the writer gives an anecdotal account of her association with the journal and how she continues to watch the weekly grow and transform with changing times. Her association with the EPW--as an observer and a participant--is inextricably linked with her own life story.
Indian Women: Contemporary Essaysedited by Devaki Jain and C P Sujaya; Publication Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India, 2015; pp xi+235, Rs 335.
Many have written about this most unusual person who left such an imprint on many of us and on many institutions. She taught me to be a scholar-activist and develop an undying concern for women’s rights.
Beyond the Invisible Hand: Groundwork for a New Economics by Kaushik Basu (Princeton: Princeton University Press and New Delhi: Penguin Books), 2011; pp 292, Rs 399.
