Gender and Knowledge
Elements of a Postmodern Feminism
Published on 2. May 2013
224 pages
978-0-7456-6704-1 (ISBN)
Description
After the success of the hardback, students and academics willwelcome the publication of this book in paperback.
The aim of the book is to explore the connection between twoperspectives that have had a profound effect upon contemporarythought: post-modernism and feminism. Through bringing together andsystematically analysing the relations between these, Hekman isable to make a major intervention into current debates in socialtheory and philosophy.
The critique of Enlightenment knowledge, she argues, is at thecore of both post-modernism and feminism. Each also offers a basisfor critical reflections about the other. In particular,post-modern philosophy provides a means of criticizing aspects ofcontemporary feminism and thus contributing to the development of amore sophisticated approach to current feminist issues.
The aim of the book is to explore the connection between twoperspectives that have had a profound effect upon contemporarythought: post-modernism and feminism. Through bringing together andsystematically analysing the relations between these, Hekman isable to make a major intervention into current debates in socialtheory and philosophy.
The critique of Enlightenment knowledge, she argues, is at thecore of both post-modernism and feminism. Each also offers a basisfor critical reflections about the other. In particular,post-modern philosophy provides a means of criticizing aspects ofcontemporary feminism and thus contributing to the development of amore sophisticated approach to current feminist issues.
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03/1992
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06/1990
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Person
Susan Hekman was previously Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Washington.
Content
1 Modernism, Postmodernism and Feminism.
2 Rational/Irrational.
3 Subject/Object.
4 Nature/Culture.
5 The Possibilities of a Postmodern Feminism.
References.
2 Rational/Irrational.
3 Subject/Object.
4 Nature/Culture.
5 The Possibilities of a Postmodern Feminism.
References.
