Engendering rationalities
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Engendering rationalities
（SUNY series in gender theory / Tina Chanter, editor）
State University of New York Press, c2001
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 381-392) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Engendering Rationalities brings together theorists whose work has been foundational to the development of feminist investigations of reason, objectivity, and knowledge with the work of scholars who build up and extend their insights. Contributors not only question standard conceptions of truth, objectivity, and our realist conceptions of the relationships between human knowledge and the world, but also offer rich and exciting alternatives to traditional theories that both arise out of and are compatible with feminist concerns. The book provides more adequate models of rationality that include the epistemic significance of a variety of subjective factors such as our specific cultural and social locations including sex, race, ethnicity, class, etc., and our personal commitments, desires, and interests.
Table of Contents
Preface
1. Introduction
Nancy Tuana
I. RETHINKING EPISTEMOLOGY: REALISM, TRUTH, OBJECTIVITY
2. Epistemology Resuscitated: Objectivity as Trustworthiness
Naomi Scheman
3. On Judging Epistemic Credibility: Is Social Identity Relevant?
Linda Martín Alcoff
4. How to Be Really Responsible
Lisa Heldke
5. Beyond Epistemology: From a Pragmatist Feminist Experiential Standpoint
Charlene Haddock Seigfried
II. UNVEILING RATIONALITY
6. Resisting Rationality
Sarah Lucia Hoagland
7. Memory, Suggestibility, and Social Skepticism
Sue Campbell
8. Relativism and Feminist Science Scholarship
Lynn Hankinson Nelson
9. The Bias Paradox in Feminist Epistemology
Richmond Campbell
III. ON THE MATTER OF KNOWING
10. Material Locations: An Interactionist Alternative to Realism/Social Constructivism
Nancy Tuana
11. Participatory Knowledge and the World in Virginia Woolf
Louise Westling
IV. WHOSE STORIES? WHICH BIASES?
12. Rational Imaginings, Responsible Knowings: How Far Can You See From Here?
Lorraine Code
13. The Epistemology of Moral Voice: Displacing Hegemony in Moral/Legal Discourse
Susan Hekman
14. Objectivity and the Role of Bias
Susan E. Babbitt
15. The Struggle to Naturalize Literary Studies: Chicana Literary Theory and Analysis
Judith Richards
16. Epistemological Deliberations: Constructing and Contesting Knowledge in Women's Cross-Cultural Hair Testimonies
Lanita Jacobs-Huey
17. Standpoint Epistemology in the Physical Sciences: The Case of Michael Faraday
Barbara L. Whitten
Bibliography/ Feminist Epistemologies
Contributors
Index
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