Feminist epistemologies

Author(s)

• Alcoff, Linda
• Potter, Elizabeth

Bibliographic Information

Feminist epistemologies

edited and with an introduction by Linda Alcoff and Elizabeth Potter

（Thinking gender）

Routledge, 1993

• : pbk

Note

Bibliography: p. 295-301

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

ISBN 9780415904506

Description

"Feminist Epistemology" is a collection of original essays exploring the intersections of gender and knowledge. It focuses on the heart of traditional epistemology - a field of study that until now has proved largely impervious to feminist enquiry. Contributors examine the traditional problems of epistemology - the nature of knowledge, justification and objectivity. However, in probing the difference that gender makes to such questions, the questions themselves are transformed. As traditional assumptions are challenged from the perspective of gender, a new set of problems is revealed. Who is the subject of knowledge? How does the social position of the subject affect the production of knowledge? And what is the connection between knowledge and politics? Taking on the insights other feminist studies have afforded to the field of epistemology, and developing new ones, this collection strives to reframe a discipline that many feminists have been keen to abandon.

Table of Contents

• 1. Introduction, Linda Alcoff and Elizabeth Potter
• 2. Taking Subjectivity into Account, Lorraine Code
• 3. Having It Both Ways, Sandra Harding
• 4. Marginality and Epistemic Privilege, Bat Ami Bar On
• 5. Subjects, Power and Knowledge, Helen Longino
• 6. Epistemological Communities, Lynn Hankinson
• 7. Gender and Epistemic Negotiation, Elizabeth Potter
• 8. Bodies and Knowledges - Feminism and the Crisis of Reason, Elizabeth Grosz
• 9. Are "Old Wives' Tales" Justified?, Linda Alcoff and Vrinda Dalmiya
• 10. Feminism and Objective Interests - The Role of Transformation Experiences in Rational Deliberation, Susan Babbitt
• 11. Knowers/Doers and Their Moral Problems, Kathryn Pyne Addlestone.

Volume

: pbk ISBN 9780415904513

Description

This is the first collection by influential feminist theorists to focus on the heart of traditional epistemology, dealing with such issues as the nature of knowledge and objectivity from a gender perspective.

Table of Contents

• Chapter 1 Introduction: When Feminisms Intersect Epistemology, Linda Alcoff, Elizabeth Potter
• Chapter 2 Taking Subjectivity into Account, Lorraine Code
• Chapter 3 Rethinking Standpoint Epistemology: What Is "Strong Objectivity"?, Sandra Harding
• Chapter 4 Marginality and Epistemic Privilege, Bat-Ami Bar On
• Chapter 5 Subjects, Power, and Knowledge: Description and Prescription in Feminist Philosophies of Science, Helen E. Longino
• Chapter 6 Epistemological Communities, Lynn Hankinson Nelson
• Chapter 7 Gender and Epistemic Negotiation, Elizabeth Potter
• Chapter 8 Bodies and Knowledges: Feminism and the Crisis of Reason, Elizabeth Grosz
• Chapter 9 Are "Old Wives' Tales" Justified?, Vrinda Dalmiya, Linda Alcoff
• Chapter 10 Feminism and Objective Interests: The Role of Transformation Experiences in Rational Deliberation, Susan E. Babbitt
• Chapter 11 Knower/Doers and Their Moral Problems, Kathryn Pyne Addelson

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Details

• NCID: BA1992983X
• ISBN:
  • 0415904501
  • 041590451X
• LCCN: 92011309
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: vii, 312 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HQ1190
  • DC20 : 305.42/01
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Feminist theory
  • LCSH : Knowledge, Theory of
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA10025566