Changing Our Minds: Feminist Transformations of Knowledge - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0887066194 ISBN 13: 9780887066191

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1987

Synopsis

What happens when traditionally-trained academics begin to reconsider their disciplines in light of recent feminist scholarship? This book was written by academics outside Women's Studies programs who have changed their minds about the foundations of their disciplines.

The authors share a commitment to explore the cultural construction of gender and the gendered construction of culture. Each chapter simultaneously examines and exemplifies the transformation of knowledge that resulted from their intensive study of feminist scholarship. Taken together, they not only demonstrate some of the range, variety, and intellectual vigor possible in discipline-specific reformulations, but also participate in the kind of trans-disciplinary thinking characteristic of the philosophy of Women's Studies from its inception. In the concluding chapter, the editors consider how efforts to transform traditional ways of knowing are inflected-and infected-by the politics of gender within academics.

About this title

About the Authors

At the University of Arizona, Susan Hardy Aiken is Associate Professor of English.

Karen Anderson is Associate Professor of History at the University of Arizona.

Myra Dinnerstein is Chairperson of Women's Studies at the University of Arizona.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0887066194
• ISBN 13: 9780887066191
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 196
• Editor: Anderson Karen