| Description |
vii, 312 pages ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Thinking gender |
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Thinking gender.
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| Contents |
Introduction : when feminisms intersect epistemology / Linda Alcoff and Elizabeth Potter -- Taking subjectivity into account / Lorraine Code -- Rethinking standpoint epistemology : "What is strong objectivity"? / Sandra Harding -- Marginality and epistemic privilege / Bat-Ami Bar On -- Subjects, power and knowledge : description and prescription in feminist philosophies of science / Helen Longino -- Epistemological communities / Lynn Hankinson Nelson -- Gender and epistemic negotiation / Elizabeth Potter -- Bodies and knowledges : feminism and the crisis of reason / Elizabeth Grosz -- Are "old wives' tales" justified? / Vrinda Dalmiya and Linda Alcoff -- Feminism and objective interests : the role of transformation experiences in rational deliberation / Susan Babbitt -- Knowers/doers and their moral problems / Kathryn Pyne Addelson |
| Summary |
Brings together original essays exploring the intersections of gender and knowledge. The contributors probe the difference gender makes by reframing old questions and looking through a feminist lens at such new questions as: Who is the subject of knowledge? How does the social position of the knower affect the production of knowledge? And what is the connection between knowledge and politics? Until now, the term "feminist epistemology" has typically been used to denote women's ways of knowing, women's experience, and the critique of specific theories about women. This book inaugurates a field of study at the intersection of feminist philosophy and epistemology "proper" |
| Analysis |
Feminism |
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Feminism |
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Feminist theory |
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Knowledge, Theory of |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 295-301 |
| Subject |
Feminist theory.
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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| Author |
Alcoff, Linda.
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Potter, Elizabeth.
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| LC no. |
92011309 |
| ISBN |
0415904501 |
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041590451X |
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