Science, feminism and animal natures II: Feminist critiques and the place of animals in science

Abstract

Feminist critiques of science have paid little attention to the use of animals within science. In this paper, I explore some of the ways in which beliefs about the ethics of using animals in laboratories map onto stereotypes of gender. This in turn raises questions about the kind of science that feminists criticize, and about the kind of science that we might envision. That vision should, I argue, take seriously the question of how science uses animals to generate knowledge.