An Introduction to Feminist Epistemologies
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- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Wiley
- Publish date: 05/01/1999
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This is a comprehensive introduction to feminist epistemologies situated at the intersection of philosophical, sociological, and cultural investigations of knowledge. Could gender, race, and sexuality be relevant to knowledge? Feminist thinkers have answered this question affirmatively. Although their positions and arguments differ in several respects, feminists have asserted that science, knowledge, and rationality cannot be severed from their social, political, and cultural aspects.
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An Introduction to Feminist Epistemologies provides several critiques of more traditional approaches, and explores the alternatives proposed by feminists. In particular, it contains extensive discussions of topics such as objectivity, rationality, power, and subject.
Drawing on a variety of sources, it demonstrates that when knowledge is conceived in terms of practices, it becomes possible to see it as normative and socially constituted. This novel feminist approach to science and knowledge avoids the problems faced by the sociology of knowledge and traditional epistemologies.
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