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, Susan Bordo

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 384

• Publisher
• Rutgers University Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780813513799

• Genres
• feminism, philosophy, theory, sociology, gender

• Release date
• 1989