“Women know very well that knowledge from the natural sciences has been used in the interests of our domination and not our liberation,” Donna Haraway writes. And this understanding, she observes, can render us less vulnerable to the seductive claims of absolute truth that are sometimes made in the name of science. But it can also invite us to undervalue the place and importance of scientific knowledge. We need science, Haraway warns. Where it is not built on social domination, science can be liberating.
