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Brain, and Heart: A Feminist Epistemology for the Natural Sciences," Hilary Rose attempts to create a philosophy of science that is not contingent upon female scientists seeing the world 'like men,' or as male scientists do. In other words, Rose suggests that rather than suggesting that the scientific perspective is gender neutral and can be assumed by both male and female individuals, females in the scientific profession must create a different epistemology or way of understanding and learning about the world that transcends the binaries created by the men whom have dominated the scientific profession until now.

Rose states that the sciences have traditionally created a sharp division between what is done by the hand, the mind, and the heart -- or through craft, intellect, and emotion. Rose suggests that such a division has not simply traditionally and falsely been used to exclude women from excelling in the intellectual, objective sphere of the sciences -- as in 'women feel, but cannot think,' therefore women cannot 'do' science -- but also has class implications in that it excludes what is construed as 'working class' from the mental realm of the sciences and feeling, artistic realms.

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By arguing for women to create a more female and feminist friendly methodology of scientific understanding, therefore, Rose suggests that science itself becomes more accessible to those who might be excluded from current scientific modalities of knowing because of class as well as gender. Science, she suggests, has economic as well as academic implications. For instance, because society posits that labor that is primarily emotionally oriented, such as childcare, is unpaid, while work accomplished with the mind should be paid most highly, while work done with the hands should be paid less, an objective discourse with no real connections to the material is valued unquestioningly, with negative implications for science as well as for women and working class individuals. Science values the theoretical, without considering its practical responsibilities and needs to the manual, material realm.

Rose's main issue is with notions of Cartesian dualisms, that create a separation with scientist and the object of 'his' study. Instead,….....

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