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Gender/Body/Knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions of Being and Knowing

Alison M. Jaggar

4.3/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 384

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Release: June 01, 1989

ISBN: 0813513790

ISBN 13: 9780813513799

Gender/Body/Knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions of Being and Knowing

Alison M. Jaggar

4.3/5 ( ratings)

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.

Language: English

Pages: 384

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Release: June 01, 1989

ISBN: 0813513790

ISBN 13: 9780813513799

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