Feminist epistemologies thinking gender by linda alcoff. Feminist social epistemology stanford encyclopedia of. When it is your turn to present a reading assume everyone has read it. Anderson describes feminist epistemology as being concerned with the way in which gender influences our concept of knowledge and practices of inquiry and justification. The time is right for a work of feminist philosophy that engages the traditional problematics of epistemology. Pdf feminist epistemologies download ebook for free. Feminist epistemologies thinking gender kindle edition by. Read feminist epistemologies online, read in mobile or kindle.
I am interested in learning as much about the different approaches to feminism as possible. Thus, although feminist ethical and political theory were rapidly growing areas of inquiry during the 1960s and 1970s, only in the 1980s was a set of questions and proposals articulated to address the possibility that there could, after all, be so seemingly oxymoronic an area of inquiry as feminist epistemology. Feminist epistemology internet encyclopedia of philosophy. Professor linda alcoff on cspan book tv professor carol gould receives 2015 apa joseph b. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading feminist epistemologies thinking gender. Its diversity mirrors the diversity of epistemology generally, as well as the diversity of theoretical. Feminist epistemology is a loosely organized approach to epistemology, rather than a particular school or theory. Feminist epistemologies sandra harding resists endorsing relativism. Feminist epistemologies linda alcoff, elizabeth potter. Feminist epistemology and philosophy of science stanford. Rees feminist philosophy intheprevioussectionofthecourse,weexploredtherelationbetweenreasonand emotion,andthestereotypesofrational. Feminist epistemologies hold that differences in the social locations of inquirers make for epistemic differences, for instance, in the sorts of things that inquirers are justified in believing.
Download feminist epistemologies ebook free in pdf and epub format. Welcome to feminist epistemologies in action the aim of this module is to provide students with a thorough grounding in the extensive feminist engagement with epistemological and methodological questions, from both. Feminist epistemologies, linda alcoff and elizabeth potter eds. Feminist epistemology and philosophy of science studies the ways in which gender does and ought to influence our conceptions of knowledge, the knowing subject, and practices of inquiry and justification. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Feminist standpoint theory has done the most to articulate the importance of perspectival differences stemming from social location. In this paper we situate this core idea in feminist epistemologies with respect to debates about social constructivism. Linda martin alcoff born july 25, 1955 in panama is a philosopher at the city university of new york who specializes in epistemology, feminism, race theory and existentialism. Are there feminist research methods mona lena krook. From 2012 to 20, she served as president of the american philosophical association apa, eastern division. The final section discusses how feminist epistemologies and feminist methodologies have begun to merge into an area called feminist research and details some key pillars of contemporary and emergent work in this area. Another way to start thinking about feminist epistemology is to consider what feminists engaged in inquiry, in the production of knowledge. Feminist epistemologies by linda alcoff ebooks for download.
Youre talking about it, rather than describing the whole piece in detail. Students interested in embodied epistemologies as developed in feminism, phenomenology, queer theory. Pdf feminist methodologies and epistemology 2006 andrea. Feminist epistemologies twentyfive years ago, lorraine code, a canadian feminist. Cover may not represent actual copy or condition available.
In an attempt to answer this question, this essay performs several tasks. Feminist epistemologies thinking gender linda alcoff, elizabeth potter on. Most feminist epistemologies those named above have been feminist adaptations of extant philosophical orientations. Books feminist epistemologies this is the first collection by influential feminist theorists to focus on the heart of traditional epistemology, dealing with such issues as the nature of knowledge and objectivity from a gender perspective. Conflicts and tensions in feminist epistemology, in conflicts in. You should be able to address the essay in 1015 minutes. I know that alcoff is a leading name in feminist work.
Situating feminist epistemology episteme cambridge core. Welcome,you are looking at books for reading, the feminist queer crip, you will able to read or download in pdf or epub books and notice some of author may have lock the live reading for some of country. Feminist epistemology is an outgrowth of both feminist theorizing about gender and traditional epistemological concerns. Feminist epistemologies thinking gender kindle edition by alcoff, linda, potter, elizabeth. It identifies ways in which dominant conceptions and practices of knowledge attribution, acquisition, and justification systematically. Feminist epistemology and the politics of knowledge. View harding, sandra rethinking standpoint epistemology. Well scrutinize various feminist accounts of objectivity, truth, and knowledge with an eye toward the political. Adopted from elements of marxist theory, feminist standpoint theory also represents one of the more thorough attempts to ground epistemology and, correspondingly, a view of knowers in a social theory. Feminist philosophy began on the margins, in the applied fields where practical concerns met with the political issues central to the womens movement. Until now, the term feminist epistemology has typically been used to denote womens ways of knowing, womens experience, and the critique of specific theories about women.
Where the content of the ebook requires a specific layout, or contains maths or other special characters, the ebook will be available in pdf pbk format, which cannot be reflowed. Addressing the issue of what makes a particular piece of research specifically feminist, they find that it includes incorporating gender, privileging. Most vitalsource ebooks are available in a reflowable epub format which allows you to resize text to suit you and enables other accessibility features. It identifies how dominant conceptions and practices of knowledge attribution, acquisition, and justification disadvantage women and other subordinated. In addition to feminist standpoint epistemology, well look at epistemologies of ignorance, and epistemologies of resistance. Feminist epistemology is an examination of epistemology the study of knowledge from a feminist standpoint. Sandra harding resists endorsing relativism even in her discussions of standpoint and postmodern epistemologies. David rubin, situating feminist epistemology in a global frame, intersections 10, no. In the face of persistent yet heterogeneous global injustice and inequality, what is the task of the feminist epistemologist in the era of globalization. Feminist social epistemology represents more than just a small subset of social epistemology, however.
Abstract over the last several decades, feminist scholars have become increasingly more reflective with regard to the research process. Alcoff and elizabeth potter 1993 hinted at this widening many years ago, arguing in the introduction to their seminal volume, feminist epistemologies, that feminist epistemology should not be taken as involving a commitment to gender as the primary axis of oppression, in any sense of primary, or. I am interested in learning as much about the different approaches to feminism as. May 03, 2016 feminist standpoint epistemology uses a multitude of perspectives to gain a foundation for knowledge and so avoids becoming skepticism. Its topics have included which kinds of knowledge projects have it, which dont, and why they dont. Feminist standpoint epistemologists believe that there are cognitive gaps between evidence and theory crumley 215. But there is no single feminist epistemology or methodology. Harding, sandra rethinking standpoint epistemology. This acclaimed book by linda alcoff is available at in several formats for your ereader. In a recent piece she introduces the neologism interpretationism as a solution, noting that relativism is a consequence, but not always the intent, of interiretationism. Pdf on jan 1, 2006, joey sprague and others published a feminist epistemology find, read and cite all the research you need on researchgate. Feminist epistemology and philosophy of science studies the ways in which gender does and ought to influence our conceptions of knowledge, knowers, and practices of inquiry and justification. For almost two decades, feminists have engaged in a complex and charged conversation about objectivity.
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