Gender/Body/Knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions of Being and Knowing
Kimberly Guinta
384 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0813513790
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Language: English
Publish: June 1, 1989
EssaysFeminismNonfictionPhilosophySociologyTheoryWomens Studies
The essays in this interdisciplinary collection share the conviction that modern western paradigms of knowledge and reality are gender-biased. Some contributors challenge and revise western conceptions of the body as the domain of the biological and ‘natural,’ the enemy of reason, typically associated with women.