| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 322 pages) : illustrations |
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Studies in feminist philosophy |
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Studies in feminist philosophy.
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| Contents |
Ecological thinking: subversions and transformations -- Ecological naturalism -- Negotiating empiricism -- Ecological subjectivity in the making: "The child as fact and artifact" -- Patterns of autonomy, acknowledgment, and advocacy -- Rational imagining, responsible knowing -- Public knowledge, public trust: toward Democratic epistemic practices |
| Summary |
Arguing that ecological thinking can animate an epistemology capable of addressing feminist, multicultural, and other post-colonial concerns, this book critiques the instrumental rationality, hyperbolized autonomy, abstract individualism, and exploitation of people and places that western epistemologies of mastery have legitimated. It proposes a politics of epistemic location, sensitive to the interplay of particularity and diversity, and focused on responsible epistemic practices. Starting from an epistemological approach implicit in Rachel Carson's scientific projects, the book draws, constructively and critically, on ecological theory and practice, on (post-Quinean) naturalized epistemology, and on feminist and post-colonial theory. Analyzing extended examples from developmental psychology, from medicine and law, and from circumstances where vulnerability, credibility, and public trust are at issue, the argument addresses the constitutive part played by an instituted social imaginary in shaping and regulating human lives. The practices and examples discussed invoke the responsibility requirements central to this text's larger purpose of imagining, crafting, articulating a creative, innovative, instituting social imaginary, committed to interrogating entrenched hierarchical social structures, en route to enacting principles of ideal cohabitation |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-304) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Knowledge, Sociology of.
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Ecofeminism.
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sociology of knowledge.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Ecofeminism.
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Knowledge, Sociology of.
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Umweltbewusstsein
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Umweltpolitik
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Feministische Philosophie
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Ökologie
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Wissenschaftstheorie
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Kennistheorie.
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Ecofeminisme.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Oxford University Press
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| ISBN |
0195159438 |
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9780195159431 |
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0195159446 |
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9780195159448 |
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9780198036135 |
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0198036132 |
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9780199786411 |
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0199786410 |
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