This is the first collection by influential feminist theorists to focus on the heart of traditional epistemology, dealing with such issues as the nature of knowledge and objectivity from a gender perspective.
Chapter 1 Introduction: When Feminisms Intersect Epistemology, Linda
Alcoff, Elizabeth Potter;
Chapter 2 Taking Subjectivity into Account,
Lorraine Code;
Chapter 3 Rethinking Standpoint Epistemology: What Is Strong
Objectivity?, Sandra Harding;
Chapter 4 Marginality and Epistemic Privilege,
Bat-Ami Bar On;
Chapter 5 Subjects, Power, and Knowledge: Description and
Prescription in Feminist Philosophies of Science, Helen E. Longino;
Chapter 6
Epistemological Communities, Lynn Hankinson Nelson;
Chapter 7 Gender and
Epistemic Negotiation, Elizabeth Potter;
Chapter 8 Bodies and Knowledges:
Feminism and the Crisis of Reason, Elizabeth Grosz;
Chapter 9 Are Old Wives
Tales Justified?, Vrinda Dalmiya, Linda Alcoff;
Chapter 10 Feminism and
Objective Interests: The Role of Transformation Experiences in Rational
Deliberation, Susan E. Babbitt;
Chapter 11 Knower/Doers and Their Moral
Problems, Kathryn Pyne Addelson;
Linda Alcoff
