| Description |
vi, 376 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
From Aristotle's dualism to materialist dialectics : feminist transformation of science and society / Ruth Berman -- The project of feminist epistemology : perspectives from a Nonwestern feminist / Uma Narayan -- Toward a feminist research method / Rhoda Linton -- Procne's song : the task of feminist literary criticism / Donna Perry -- Chinamerican women writers : four forerunners of Maxine Hong Kingston / Amy Ling -- Feminist theory and standardized testing / Phyllis Teitelbaum -- The changer and the changed : methodological reflections on studying Jewish feminists / Sherry Gorelick |
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The body and the reproduction of feminimity : a feminist appropriation of Foucault / Susan R. Bordo -- Power, sexuality, and intimacy / Muriel Dimen -- The politics of writing (the) body : écriture féminine / Arleen B. Dallery -- (Re)presentations of Eros : exploring female sexual agency / Eileen O'Neill -- The uses of myth, image, and the female body in re-visioning knowledge / Donna Wilshire -- Healing the wounds : feminism, ecology, and nature-culture dualism / Ynestra King -- Love and knowledge : emotion in feminist epistemology / Alison M. Jaggar -- Women and caring : what can feminists learn about morality from caring? / Joan C. Tronto -- The radical future of a classic moral theory / Lynne S. Arnault -- Feminism and the reconstruction of social science / Sondra Farganis |
| Summary |
"The essays in this interdisciplinary collection share the conviction that modern western paradigms of knowledge and reality are gender-biased. Some contributors challenge and revise western conceptions of the body as the domain of the biological and 'natural, ' the enemy of reason, typically associated with women. Others develop a conception of the knowing subject which, in contrast to dominant philosophical conceptions, is social, embodied, interested, and emotional as well as rational, and whose emotions and reason are shaped by her historical context. A final group of papers explores the practical application of these feminist insights in a range of contexts."--Back cover |
| Analysis |
Feminism Theories |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
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Includes index |
| Subject |
Feminism.
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Human body.
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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Sex role.
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| Author |
Bordo, Susan, 1947-
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Jaggar, Alison M.
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| LC no. |
88018370 |
| ISBN |
0813513782 |
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0813513790 (paperback) |
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