Gender/Body/Knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions of Being and Knowing

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.

Author: Alison M. Jaggar
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 06/01/1989
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.36lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.04w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9780813513799

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 07/01/1989