Feminist Epistemologies

ISBN-13: 9780415904513 / Angielski / Miękka / 1992 / 324 str.

Linda Martin Alcoff; Elizabeth Potter; Elizabeth Potter

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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;

O autorze

Linda Alcoff