Gender/Body/Knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions Of Being And Knowing

feminist reconstructions of being and knowing

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The essays in this interdisciplinary collection, unified by their shared conviction that these understandings of being and knowing are gender biased, explore this insight in a variety of ways. Some challenge and begin to revise western conceptions of the body as the domain of the biological and "natural", the enemy of reason, typically associated with women. Others develop a conception of the knowing subject which, in contrast to dominant philospohical conceptions, is social, embodied interested and emotional as well as rational and whose emotions and reason are shaped by her historical context. A final group of papers explore the practical application of these feminist insights in a range of contexts.