What Can She Know? : : Feminist Theory and the Construction of Knowledge / / Lorraine Code.

In this lively and accessible book Lorraine Code addresses one of the most controversial questions in contemporary theory of knowledge, a question of fundamental concern for feminist theory as well: Is the sex of the knower epistemologically significant? Responding in the affirmative, Code offers a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©1991
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (368 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • CHAPTER ONE. Is the Sex of the Knower Epistemologically Significant?
  • CHAPTER TWO. Knowledge and Subjectivity
  • CHAPTER THREE. Second Persons
  • CHAPTER FOUR. The Autonomy of Reason
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Women and Experts: The Power of Ideology
  • CHAPTER SIX. Credibility: A Double Standard
  • CHAPTER SEVEN. Remapping the Epistemic Terrain
  • CHAPTER EIGHT. A Feminist Epistemology?
  • Bibliography
  • Index