Feminist Epistemologies (Thinking Gender) by Linda Martín Alcoff


Feminist Epistemologies (Thinking Gender)
Title : Feminist Epistemologies (Thinking Gender)
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ISBN : 041590451X
ISBN-10 : 9780415904513
Language : English
Format Type : Paperback
Number of Pages : 312
Publication : First published December 21, 1992

Feminist Epistemologies 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 experiences, and the critique of specific theories about women. This book inaugurates a field of study at the intersection of feminist philosophy and epistemology "proper."

Contributors:
Kathryn Pyne Addelson, Linda Alcoff, Susan Babbitt, Lorraine Code, Vrinda Dalmiya, Elizabeth Grosz, Sandra Harding, Helen Longino, Lynn Hankinson Nelson, Bat Ami Bar On, Elizabeth Potter.

Feminist Epistemologies (Thinking Gender) Reviews

  • Arda

    Notes taken mostly from Alcoff contributions in journals:

    In ‘The Problem of Speaking for Others,” Alcoff (1991) demonstrates that the locations of privilege can be dangerous as it creates large gaps between what is spoken of and who is spoken for; there is something that is constructed in that process of representation, and it is not disconnected from the ‘power’ of discourse as well as the ‘power’ of place (Alcoff, 1991).

  • John

    I have found this an immensely suggestive book, collecting as it does essays from both prominent and rising figures in feminist philosophy of knowledge--albeit from about two decades ago. I am struck by how little impact feminist thought, even of this high and generally temperate quality, has had on evangelical theology, to the shame of my guild.

    If you're new to the idea, let alone the discourse, of feminist epistemology, this is an excellent place to start.

  • Angie

    I used this for one of the cornerstones on my master's thesis about modern society's view of midwives bv. doctors and how we are legitimized by the way in which we learn things. Fascinating!

  • Elizabeth

    trade paper