Description: 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. Moving throughout South Asia and North and Central America, Duran explores ways in which women are reappropriating "the right to know" -- in the sciences, within religious institutions, and in the political sphere.

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