Gender/body/knowledge : feminist reconstructions of being and knowing / edited by Alison M. Jaggar and Susan R. Bordo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jaggar, Alison M.

Bordo, Susan, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human body.

Sex role.

Knowledge, Theory of.

Feminism.

Physical Description:

vi, 376 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [1989]

Summary:

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. Others develop a conception of the knowing subject which, in contrast to dominant philosophical 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 explores the practical application of these feminist insights in a range of contexts. In addition to the editors, the contributors are Muriel Dimen, Arleen B. Dallery, Eileen O'Neill, Donna Wilshire, Ynestra King, Joan C. Tronto, Lynne S. Arnault, Sondra Farganis, Ruth Berman, Uma Narayan, Rhoda Linton, Donna Perry, Amy Ling, Phyllis Teitelbaum, and Sherry Gorelick.

Contents:

Part I The Body, the Self

The Body and the Reproduction of Femininity: A Feminist Appropriation of Foucault / Susan R. Bordo 13

Power, Sexuality, and Intimacy / Muriel Dimen 34

The Politics of Writing (the) Body: Ecriture Feminine / Arleen B. Dallery 52

(Re)presentations of Eros: Exploring Female Sexual Agency / Eileen O'Neill 68

The Uses of Myth, Image, and the Female Body in Re-visioning Knowledge / Donna Wilshire 92

Healing the Wounds: Feminism, Ecology, and Nature/Culture Dualism / Ynestra King 115

Part II Feminist Ways of Knowing

Love and Knowledge: Emotion in Feminist Epistemology / Alison M. Jaggar 145

Women and Caring: What Can Feminists Learn about Morality from Caring? / Joan C. Tronto 172

The Radical Future of a Classic Moral Theory / Lynne S. Arnault 188

Feminism and the Reconstruction of Social Science / Sondra Farganis 207

From Aristotle's Dualism to Materialist Dialectics: Feminist Transformation of Science and Society / Ruth Berman 224

The Project of Feminist Epistemology: Perspectives from a Nonwestern Feminist / Uma Narayan 256

Part III Revisioning Method

Toward a Feminist Research Method / Rhoda Linton 273

Procne's Song: The Task of Feminist Literary Criticism / Donna Perry 293

Chinamerican Women Writers: Four Forerunners of Maxine Hong Kingston / Amy Ling 309

Feminist Theory and Standardized Testing / Phyllis Teitelbaum 324

The Changer and the Changed: Methodological Reflections on Studying Jewish Feminists / Sherry Gorelick 336.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0813513782 :

0813513790

OCLC:

18164345