Gender/body/knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions of Being and KnowingAlison M. Jaggar, Susan Bordo 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. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Muriel Dimen Power Sexuality and Intimacy | 34 |
Exploring | 68 |
Donna Wilshire The Uses of Myth Image and | 92 |
Feminism Ecology | 115 |
What | 172 |
Lynne S Arnault The Radical Future of a Classic | 188 |
Sondra Farganis Feminism and the Reconstruction | 207 |
Ruth Berman From Aristotles Dualism to Materialist | 224 |
Rhoda Linton Toward a Feminist Research Method | 273 |
The Task of Feminist | 293 |
Four | 309 |
Phyllis Teitelbaum Feminist Theory and Standardized | 324 |
Contributors | 359 |
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