Knowing Feminisms

On Academic Borders, Territories and Tribes

Author: Liz Stanley
ISBN: 9780803975415

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

Publisher: SAGE Publications
Publish Date: 1997-05-05

Subjects: Social Science / Women's Studies

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Feminism )