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New Feminist Work on Knowledge, Reason and Objectivity

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Sara Ruddick
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Abstract

The contributors to two new anthologies A Mind of One's Own: Feminist Essays on Reason and Objectivity (edited by Louise Antony and Charlene Witt) and Feminist Epistemologies (edited by Linda Alcoff and Elizabeth Potter) are philosophers for whom feminism is an intellectual as well as political commitment and they produce original, valuable feminist and philosophical work. I focus on differences between the anthologies and on two themes: the social character of knowledge and the allegedly oppressive “masculinism” of epistemological ideals.

Type
REVIEW ESSAY
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Hypatia , Volume 8 , Issue 4 , Fall 1993 , pp. 140 - 149
Copyright
Copyright © 1993 by Hypatia, Inc.

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