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ERIC TITLE NUMBER: ED345631 AUTHOR: Hartman, Joan E., Ed.; Messer Davidow, Ellen, Ed.
TITLE: (En)Gendering Knowledge: Feminists in Academe.
YEAR PUBLISHED: 1991
NOTE: 313 p.
AVAILABILITY: University of Chicago Press, 11030 South
Langley Ave., Chicago, IL 60628 (paperback:
ISBN-0-87049-701 4, $18.95; clothbound:
ISBN-0-87049-700-6).
ABSTRACT: This book summarizes the major conceptual
dilemmas facing feminist intellectuals in academia today.
It shows how scholars in very different disciplines can
draw on particularities of race, class, ethnicity,
sexuality, gender, and voice to enrich and contextualize
the knowledge they produce. Examined are agency,
perspectives, value judgments, disciplinary selections, and
academic knowledge and social change as key elements in the
production of knowledge. Articles and authors are as
follows: "Telling Stories: The Construction of Women's
Agency" (Joan E. Hartman); "Learning from the Outsider
Within: The Sociological Significance of Black Feminist
Thought" (Patricia Hill Collins); "Women and Other
Strangers: Feminist Perspectives in Classical Literature"
(Kathryn J. Gutzwiller, Ann Norris Michelini); "Seeing,
Reading, Knowing: The Lesbian Appropriation of Literature"
(Bonnie Zimmerman); "Who Knows?: Identities and Feminist
Epistemology" (Sandra Harding); "Whose Research Is This?:
Values and Biology" (Ruth G. Doell); "Contingencies of
Value in Feminist Anthropology" (Micaela di Leonardo);
"Black Woman Scholar, Critic, and Teacher: The Inextricable
Relationship among Race, Sex, and Class" (Joyce A. Joyce);
"Who Wants To Know?: The Epistemological Value of Values"
(Naomi Scheman); "Toward a Post-Phallic Science" (Denise
Frechet); "The Art Historical Canon: Sins of Omission"
(Nanette Salomon); "Mastery" (Angelika Bammer); "Making
Knowledge" (Kathryn Pyne Addelson, Elizabeth Potter); "Know
How" (Ellen Messer-Davidow). (GLR)
KEY DESCRIPTORS: Blacks-; College-Faculty; Essays-; Higher
Education; Inquiry-; Research-; Social-Change; Sociology-;
Values-
KEY DESCRIPTORS: *Epistemology-; *Feminism-; *Intellectual
Disciplines; *Scholarship-; *Social-Bias; *Women-Faculty
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