Transforming Knowledge - Rilegato

Minnich, Elizabeth Kamarck

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ISBN 10: 159213131X ISBN 13: 9781592131310

Casa editrice: Temple Univ Pr, 2004

Riassunto

This is a book about how we define knowledge and how we think about moral and political questions. It argues that the prevailing systems of knowledge, morality, and politics are rooted in views that are exclusionary and therefore legitimate injustice, patriarchy, and violence. That is, these views divide humans into different kinds along a hierarchy whose elite still defines the systems that shape our lives and misshape our thinking. Like the first edition of Transforming Knowledge, this substantially revised edition calls upon us to continue to liberate our minds and the systems we live within from concepts that rationalize inequality. It engages with the past fifteen years of feminist scholarship and developments in its allied fields (such as Cultural Studies, African American Studies, Queer Studies, and Disability Studies) to critique the deepest and most vicious of old prejudices. This new edition extends Minnich's arguments and connects them with the contemporary academy as well as recent instances of domination, genocide, and sexualized violence. * Updated to consider recent scholarship in Gender, Multicultural, Postcolonial, Disability, Native American, and Queer Studies, among other fields of study * Revised to include an extended analysis of the conceptual errors that legitimate domination, including the construction of kinds (\u0022genders\u0022) of human beings * Revised to include new materials from a variety of cultures and times, and engages with today's contemporary debates about affirmative action, postmodernism, and religion

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Informazioni sull?autore

Elizabeth Kamarck Minnich is Senior Fellow, the Association of American Colleges and Universities.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Temple Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 159213131X
• ISBN 13: 9781592131310
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 292
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile