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Deconstructing ‘Categorisation & Construction’
Marxist historian MARY DAVIS responds to recent articles on science and society, and counters the idea that ‘facts are the product of human minds’
Marx and Hegel had different conceptions about how to understand the world around us
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MANY women will welcome the fact that a sensible discussion has opened on the sex/gender issue in the wake of the two latest Science & Society articles.
In the spirit of respectful debate, I now express my disagreement with the authors.
Underlying my substantive criticism is my contention that the authors, Middleton, Shaw and Hellewell, reject the basic precepts of Marxist theory; namely dialectical and historical materialism.
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