Overview
Knowing Feminisms looks at feminism as a vital source of new knowledge and new ways of working throughout a range of disciplines. It also scrutinizes the sometimes highly problematic forms its presence within academia can take. The contributors, all well-known feminist academics, discuss the epistemological and ontological borderlands′ that feminisms inhabit, which although within, still remain other′ to, the academy. The book addresses fundamentally important questions such as: Should feminists work within traditional disciplines or abandon them in favour of Women′s Studies? Is the idea of feminist pedagogy as empowerment′ actually one which de-skills? Does the feminist transformation of some academic disciplines
- | Author: Elizabeth Stanley
- | Publisher: Sage Publications UK
- | Publication Date: Mar 10, 1997
- | Number of Pages: 224 pages
- | Binding: Paperback or Softback
- | ISBN-10: 0803975414
- | ISBN-13: 9780803975415
