Toward a Feminist Epistemology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Toward a Feminist Epistemology write by Jane Duran. This book was released on 1991. Toward a Feminist Epistemology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Drawing on recent advances in analytic epistemology, feminist scholarship and philosophy of science, the author of this work proposes a feminist theory of knowledge.
Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science
Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science write by Heidi E. Grasswick. This book was released on 2011-05-16. Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Having enjoyed more than twenty years of development, feminist epistemology and philosophy of science are now thriving fields of inquiry, offering current scholars a rich tradition from which to draw. In addition to a recognition of the power of knowledge itself and its effects on women’s lives, a central feature of feminist epistemology and philosophy of science has been the attention they draw to the role of power dynamics within knowledge-seeking practices and the implications of these dynamics for our understandings of knowledge, science, and epistemology. Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science: Power in Knowledge collects new works that address today’s key challenges for a power-sensitive feminist approach to questions of knowledge and scientific practice. The essays build upon established work in feminist epistemology and philosophy of science, offering new developments in the fields, and representing the broad array of the feminist work now being done and the many ways in which feminists incorporate power dynamics into their analyses.
The Subject of Liberty
The Subject of Liberty - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Subject of Liberty write by Nancy J. Hirschmann. This book was released on 2009-01-10. The Subject of Liberty available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book reconsiders the dominant Western understandings of freedom through the lens of women's real-life experiences of domestic violence, welfare, and Islamic veiling. Nancy Hirschmann argues that the typical approach to freedom found in political philosophy severely reduces the concept's complexity, which is more fully revealed by taking such practical issues into account. Hirschmann begins by arguing that the dominant Western understanding of freedom does not provide a conceptual vocabulary for accurately characterizing women's experiences. Often, free choice is assumed when women are in fact coerced--as when a battered woman who stays with her abuser out of fear or economic necessity is said to make this choice because it must not be so bad--and coercion is assumed when free choices are made--such as when Westerners assume that all veiled women are oppressed, even though many Islamic women view veiling as an important symbol of cultural identity. Understanding the contexts in which choices arise and are made is central to understanding that freedom is socially constructed through systems of power such as patriarchy, capitalism, and race privilege. Social norms, practices, and language set the conditions within which choices are made, determine what options are available, and shape our individual subjectivity, desires, and self-understandings. Attending to the ways in which contexts construct us as "subjects" of liberty, Hirschmann argues, provides a firmer empirical and theoretical footing for understanding what freedom means and entails politically, intellectually, and socially.
Relations and Meanings
Relations and Meanings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Relations and Meanings write by Eleanor MacDonald. This book was released on 1985. Relations and Meanings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Scrutinizing Feminist Epistemology
Scrutinizing Feminist Epistemology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Scrutinizing Feminist Epistemology write by Cassandra L. Pinnick. This book was released on 2003. Scrutinizing Feminist Epistemology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume presents the first systematic evaluation of a feminist epistemology of sciences' power to transform both the practice of science and our society. Unlike existing critiques, this book questions the fundamental feminist suggestion that purging science of alleged male biases will advance the cause of both science and by extension, social justice. The book is divided into four sections: the strange status of feminist epistemology, testing feminist claims about scientific practice, philosophical and political critiques of feminist epistemology, and future prospects of feminist epistemology. Each of the essays3/4most of which are original to this text3/4 directly confronts the very idea that there could be a feminist epistemology or philosophy of science. Rather than attempting to deal in detail with all of the philosophical views that fall under the general rubric of feminist epistemology, the contributors focus on positions that provide the most influential perspectives on science. Not all of the authors agree amongst themselves, of course, but each submits feminist theories to careful scrutiny. Scrutinizing Feminist Epistemology provides a timely, well-rounded, and much needed examination of the role of gender in scientific research.
