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The path-breaking Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories is an accessible, multidisciplinary insight into the complex field of feminist thought. The Encyclopedia contains over 500 authoritative entries commissioned from an international team of contributors and includes clear, concise and provocative explanations of key themes and ideas. Each entry contains cross references and a bibliographic guide to further reading; over 50 biographical entries provide readers with a sense of how the theories they encounter have developed out of the lives and situations of their authors.
This text closes the gap between theory and practice by developing
case-by-case analyses of knowing other people in situations where
socio-political inequalities create patterns of knowledge, power
and privilege. The forms of knowledge that are necessary to inform
conceptions of care and empathy are examined. For instance, Code
investigates how stereotyping violates the senses of self of the
people being stereotyped. She reveals how gossip and story-telling
can count as viable sources of knowledge and how testimony can be
discounted and discredited in patterns of systematic incredulity.
This collection of trenchant essays show how reconfiguring
structures of cognitive authority and expertise are matters not
just of individual responsibility, but integral to the
reconstruction of communities and social orders where people can
live well.
Contents: 1. Responsibility and Rhetoric; 2. Taking Subjectivity into Account; 3. Incredulity, Experientialism, and the Politics of Knowledge; 4. Persons, and Others; 5. Who Cares? The Poverty of Objectivism for a Moral Epistemology; 6. I know Just How You Feel: Empathy and the Problem of Epistemic Authority; 7. Gossip, or In Praise of Chaos; 8. Voice and Voicelessness: A Modest Proposal?; 9. Must a Feminist Be a Relativist After All?; 10. Critiques of Pure Reason.
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The Sex of Knowing (Hardcover)
Kathryn Hamer; Michele Le Doeuff; Translated by Lorraine Code
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R4,155
Discovery Miles 41 550
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The Sex of Knowing (Paperback)
Kathryn Hamer; Michele Le Doeuff; Translated by Lorraine Code
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R1,236
Discovery Miles 12 360
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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The path-breaking Encyclopedia of Feminist Theories is an accessible, multidisciplinary insight into the complex field of feminist thought. The Encyclopedia contains over 500 authoritative entries commissioned from an international team of contributors and includes clear, concise and provocative explanations of key themes and ideas. Each entry contains cross references and a bibliographic guide to further reading; over 50 biographical entries provide readers with a sense of how the theories they encounter have developed out of the lives and situations of their authors. eBook available with sample pages: 0203195590
Images of and references to women are so rare in the vast corpus
of his published work that there seems to be no "woman question"
for Hans-Georg Gadamer. Yet the authors of the fifteen essays
included in this volume show that it is possible to read past
Gadamer's silences about women and other Others to find rich
resources for feminist theory and practice in his views of science,
language, history, knowledge, medicine, and literature. While the
essayists find much of value in Gadamer's work, he emerges from
their discussion as a controversial figure. Some contributors see
him as promoting genuine respect for and engagement with Otherness:
others claim that in a Gadamerian conversation the Other has no
voice. For some, Gadamer's immersion in tradition is an impediment
to feminist inquiry; for others, cognizant of the need to
understand tradition well in order to contest its intransigence or
benefit from its insights, his way of engaging tradition is
especially productive. Some contributors take issue with the
separation he maintains between philosophy and politics; others
find problems in his relative silence on matters of embodiment;
still others maintain that a "fusion of horizons" amounts to a
colonizing of difference. But a common aim of each of these
controversies is to discern what feminists can learn from Gadamer
as well as what limitations feminist reinterpretations of his work
must inevitably encounter.
Contributors are Linda Martin Alcoff, William Cowling, Gemma
Corradi Fiumara, Marie Fleming, Silja Freudenberger, Susan Hekman,
Susan-Judith Hoffmann, Grace M. Jantzen, Patricia Altenbernd
Johnson, Laura Kaplan, Robin Pappas, Robin May Schott, Meili
Steele, Veronica Vasterling, Georgia Warnke, and Kathleen Roberts
Wright.
In this lively and accessible book Lorraine Code addresses one of
the most controversial questions in contemporary theory of
knowledge, a question of fundamental concern for feminist theory as
well: Is the sex of the knower epistemologically significant?
Responding in the affirmative, Code offers a radical alterantive to
mainstream philosophy's terms for what counts as knowledge and how
it is to be evaluated. Code first reviews the literature of
established epistemologies and unmasks the prevailing assumption in
Anglo-American philosophy that "the knower" is a value-free and
ideologically neutral abstraction. Approaching knowledge as a
social construct produced and validated through critical dialogue,
she defines the knower in light of a conception of subjectivity
based on a personal relational model. Code maps out the relevance
of the particular people involved in knowing: their historical
specificity, the kinds of relationships they have, the effects of
social position and power on those relationships, and the ways in
which knowledge can change both knower and known. In an exploration
of the politics of knowledge that mainstream epistemologies
sustain, she examines such issues as the function of knowledge in
shaping institutions and the unequal distribution of cognitive
resources. What Can She Know? will raise the level of debate
concerning epistemological issues among philosophers, political and
social scientists, and anyone interested in feminist theory.
How could ecological thinking animate an epistemology capable of
addressing feminist, multicultural, and other post-colonial
concerns? Starting from an epistemological approach implicit in
Rachel Carson's scientific practice, Lorraine Code elaborates the
creative, restructuring resources of ecology for a theory of
knowledge. She critiques the instrumental rationality, abstract
individualism, and exploitation of people and places that western
epistemologies of mastery have legitimated, to propose a politics
of epistemic location, sensitive to the interplay of particularity
and diversity, and focused on responsible epistemic practice.
Drawing on ecological theory and practice, on naturalized
epistemology, and on feminist and post-colonial theories, Code
analyzes extended examples from developmental psychology, and from
two "natural" institutions of knowledge production--medicine and
law. These institutions lend themselves well to a reconfigured
naturalism. They are, in practice, empirically-scientifically
informed, specifically situated, and locally interpretive. With
human subjects as their "objects" of knowledge, they invoke the
responsibility requirements central to Code's larger project.
This book discusses a wide range of literature in philosophy,
social science, and ethico-political thought. Highly innovative, it
will generate productive conversations in feminist theory, and in
the ethics and politics of knowledge more broadly conceived.
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