Feminist Science Fiction and Feminist Epistemology - Four Modes (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2016)

This book argues that feminist science fiction shares the same concerns as feminist epistemology-challenges to the sex of the knower, the valuation of the abstract over the concrete, the dismissal of the physical, the focus on rationality and reason, the devaluation of embodied knowledge, and the containment of (some) bodies. Ritch Calvin argues that feminist science fiction asks questions of epistemology because those questions are central to making claims of subjectivity and identity. Calvin reveals how women, who have historically been marginal to the deliberations of philosophy and science, have made significant contributions to the reconsideration and reformulation of the epistemological models of the world and the individuals in it.

General

Imprint:	Springer International Publishing AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Series:	Studies in Global Science Fiction
Release date:	September 2016
First published:	2016
Authors:	Ritch Calvin
Dimensions:	210 x 148 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	304
Edition:	1st ed. 2016
ISBN-13:	978-3-319-32469-2
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > Feminism Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Epistemology, theory of knowledge
LSN:	3-319-32469-1
Barcode:	9783319324692

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