The Sex of Knowing

ISBN-13: 9780415928601 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 264 str.

Michele Le Doeuff; Michele Le Duff; M. Le Doeuff

Opis

Michele Le Doeuff is a leading French philosopher and an important feminist thinker. This text provides a comprehensive account of her views. Le Doeuff's target is the continuing tendency to think that men are more rational, more analytic than women, a tendency that persists in spite of our thinking we know better. She argues that the conceptual links between masculinity and rationality are deeply rooted in the public imagination and institutions of learning, and continue to have devastating effects on what women are able to achieve. To shed light on the depth and persistence of the problem, Le Doeuff leads readers on a provocative journey through the great texts and authors of the past and present from Plato and Descartes to Evelyn Fox Keller and Kate Millett.

Spis treści

Introduction 1.Cast-Offs 1.1 How Intuition Came to Women 1.2 Woman as an Object of Discourse: An Inquiry Into Categories 1.3 Values/Countervalues 1.4 Knowledge and Power 1.5 Anti-Intellectualism 1.6 Essays on Original Sin 1.7 A Knowing Subject in Process 1.8 Coherences 1.9 Divine Plato? 1.10 Eve's Awakening/Apollo's Ruling: Two Banquets Juxtaposed 2. Renaissances 2.1 The Intermittent Existence of Women Doctors 2.2 A Cognitive Norm 2.3 Knowing by Dreaming? Object Versus Objectification 2.4 Construction of an Object or Definition of a Field? 2.5 Lady Trotula 2.6 Being as One is Perceived 2.7 Legal Counsel on Strike 2.8 Verum Index Sui 2.9 Interlude 2.10 Masculine Foreclosures of Knowledge 2.11 Epikleroi 2.12 Three Headscarves 2.13 The Jailer's Catechism 2.14 A Little Learning 2.15 The Judgement of Christine 3. An Epistemology of Hope 3.1 Take An Aspirin 3.2 An Offensive Philosophy, but to Whom? 3.3 Sciences, Humanities, and Philosophy 3.4 Finalities 3.5 The Alchemy of the Word 3.6 Phallomelancholia or Gay Science? 3.7 Duplicities 3.8 Neutrality 3.9 Factual Violence/Ideational Violence 3.10 Visions 3.11 The Liberal Experience 3.12 Saint Scholastica 3.13 A Woman and a Man in Philosophy 3.14 The Admirable Essay 3.15 Equality, Difference, or Divergence? 3.16 Corporations Epilogue Notes Index

O autorze

Michèle Le Doeuff is Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Her other works translated into English are The Philosophical Imaginary (1989) and Hipparchia's Choice: An Essay Concerning Women, Philosophy, etc.(1991). Lorraine Code is Distinguished Research Professor Department of Philosophy, York University. Kathryn Hamer is Professor of French and Dean of Arts, Letters and Humanities at Mount Allison University.