Fine paperback (very light edgewear, ownership sig., clean and unmarked). 349 pp Paperback. The picture on this listing page is of the actual book for sale.

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Titolo

What Can She Know? Feminist Theory and the Construction of Knowledge

Editore

Cornell University Press

Data di pubblicazione

1991

Lingua

Inglese

ISBN 10

0801424763

ISBN 13

9780801424762

Rilegatura

Brossura

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Social Science

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Riassunto

In this lively and accessible book Lorraine Code addresses one of the most controversial questions in contemporary theory of knowledge, a question of fundamental concern for feminist theory as well: Is the sex of the knower epistemologically significant? Responding in the affirmative, Code offers a radical alterantive to mainstream philosophy's terms for what counts as knowledge and how it is to be evaluated.

Code first reviews the literature of established epistemologies and unmasks the prevailing assumption in Anglo-American philosophy that "the knower" is a value-free and ideologically neutral abstraction. Approaching knowledge as a social construct produced and validated through critical dialogue, she defines the knower in light of a conception of subjectivity based on a personal relational model. Code maps out the relevance of the particular people involved in knowing: their historical specificity, the kinds of relationships they have, the effects of social position and power on those relationships, and the ways in which knowledge can change both knower and known. In an exploration of the politics of knowledge that mainstream epistemologies sustain, she examines such issues as the function of knowledge in shaping institutions and the unequal distribution of cognitive resources.

What Can She Know? will raise the level of debate concerning epistemological issues among philosophers, political and social scientists, and anyone interested in feminist theory.

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Lorraine Code is Associate Professor of Philosophy at York University.

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