Knowing the Difference: Feminist Perspectives in Epistemology - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415089883 ISBN 13: 9780415089883

Publisher: Routledge, 1994

Synopsis

The question of difference has always been a controversial issue for feminists. This is certainly true in the case of epistemological questions. What difference does the adoption of a feminist perspective make in relation to traditional knowledge? How are feminist perspectives themselves affected by the difference between women? Both questions require a re-evaluation of issues of objectivity and the justification of knowledge claims in a way that focuses on the subjects who constitute the knowledge producers. Using approaches and methods from both analytic and continental thinking, this important collection addresses traditional epistemology and issues raised by postmodern critiques. Knowing the Difference features contributions from an international list of contributors including Rosi Braidotti, Gemma Corradi Fiumara, Sabina Lovibond, Liz Stanley and Anna Yeatman as well as a range of new and innovative thinkers.

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Review:

"These essays challenge, unsettle and stretch philosophic and feminist assumptions, including Anglo-American, Continental and Southern' legacies in both fields. Powerful new voices join widely acclaimed scholars in lively debates and discussions about issues that all of us will have to resolve. What others see as problematic tensions between Enlightenment and postmodernist approaches to knowers, knowing and knowledge, these thinkers turn into valuable resources for the next moment in global dialogues. This is an immensely exciting collection."
-Sandra Harding, University of Delaware
"This is an exciting collection of papers that will open up the field of work in feminist epistemologies beyond the current terms of debate . . . The anthology as a whole works to bridge the existing gap between the philosophical discussions among postmodernists and among feminist epistemologists."
-Linda Alcoff, Syracuse University
"These diverse and innovative essays work creatively within the tensions that feminist epistemologies have to negotiate now that issues of accountability, power, specificity, language and agency are as urgent as the once-pivotal questions about disinterested knowledge and truth."
-Lorraine Code, York University, Canada

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0415089883
• ISBN 13: 9780415089883
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 314
• Editor: Lennon Kathleen, Whitford Margaret