Spanning over nine hundred years, this work traces the themes of standard philosophical theorizing and feminist thought across women philosophers in the Western tradition. It presents a comprehensive overview of eight women philosophers that underscores the profound and continuing significance of these thinkers for contemporary scholars.

This text is a long needed, cross-cultural primer on worldviews and epistemologies of various cultures. It will prove an enormously useful resource for scholars in women's studies, philosophy, anthropology, and religious studies.

What counts as 'knowledge'? That is the central question of epistemology, and for Jane Duran it also establishes gender hierarchies throughout the world. Duran finds that many cultures routinely denigrate women's daily, often 'domestic' knowledge. Instead, societies award the status of 'knowledge' - and the social and political power that comes with it - to information and skills obtained through conventionally male institutions such as churches and universities. Using examples from South Asia and North and Central America, Duran explores ways in which women are reappropriating 'the right to...

This book presents the current feminist critique of science and the philosophy of science in such a way that students of philosophy of science, philosophers, feminist theorists, and scientists will find the material accessible and intellectually rigorous.Contemporary feminist debate, as well as the debate brought on by the radical critics of science, assumesincorrectlythat certain movements in philosophy of science and science-driven theory are understood in their dynamics as well as in their details. All too often, labels such as Kuhnian or positivistic are taken for granted, and much of the...

Articulates philosophical concerns in the work of five well known twentieth century women writers, including writers of color. This book traces the development of philosophical themes - ontological, ethical and feminist - in the writings of Margaret Drabbl