Power, knowledge and feminist scholarship : : an ethnography of academia / / Maria do Mar Pereira.
Feminist scholarship is sometimes dismissed as not quite 'proper' knowledge - it's too political or subjective, many argue. But what are the boundaries of 'proper' knowledge? Who defines them, and how are they changing? How do feminists negotiate them? And how does this boun...
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| Superior document: | Transformations: Thinking Through Feminism |
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| Place / Publishing House: | London ;, New York : : Routledge,, 2017. ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Edition: | First edition. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Transformations.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (247 pages) :; illustrations, tables. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. An outsider within? : the position and status of WGFS in academia
- 2. Pushing and pulling the boundaries of knowledge : a feminist theory of epistemic status
- 3. WGFS in the performative university (part I) : the epistemic status of WGFS in times of paradoxical change
- 4. WGFS is proper knowledge, but. : the splitting of feminist scholarship
- 5. Putting WGFS on the map(s) : the boundary-work of WGFS scholars
- 6. The importance of being foreign and modern : the geopolitics of the epistemic status of WGFS
- 7. WGFS in the performative university (part II) : the mood of academia and its impact on our knowledge and our lives conclusion.