Gender/Body/Knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions of Being and Knowing
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...
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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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780813513799 (0813513790)
Publish date: June 1st 1989
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English