Challenging Academic Norms: An Epistemology for Feminist and Multicultural Classrooms
National Women's Studies Association Journal 19 (2):55-78 (2007)
Abstract
Even while progressive educators and feminist standpoint theorists defend the value of marginalized perspectives, many marginal-voice texts continue to be deprecated in academic contexts due to their seemingly "unprofessional," engaged, and creative styles. Thus, scholars who seek to defend a feminist and multicultural curriculum need a theory of knowledge that goes beyond current standpoint theory and accounts for the unorthodox format in which many maringal standpoints appear. In response to this challenge, this essay draws on feminist and postcolonial critics of objectivity, including Dorothy Smith, Chandra Mohanty, Barrios de Chungara, and Arhundati Roy to theorize the epistemic value of texts that respond with passion and creativity to marginalized people's struggles. In conclusion, the author distinguishes ethically oriented engagement with such texts from mere "politicized teaching," and she suggests ways to teach such texts that cultivate their critical potential.Author's Profile
My notes
Similar books and articles
The Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader: Intellectual and Political Controversies.Sandra G. Harding (ed.) - 2004 - Routledge.
Reading Across Borders: Storytelling and Knowledges of Resistance.Shari Stone-Mediatore - 2003 - Palgrave-Macmillan.
A philosophical analysis of the problematical feminist-liberal approaches to the phenomenon of multiculturalism. Down with feminist liberalism?Evelien Geerts - manuscript
Ethics: Classical Western Texts in Feminist and Multicultural Perspectives.James P. Sterba (ed.) - 2000 - Oxford University Press.
Women's Lives / Feminist Knowledge: Feminist Standpoint as Ideology Critique.Rosemary Hennessy - 1993 - Hypatia 8 (1):14 - 34.
Dismantling the self/other dichotomy in science: Towards a feminist model of the immune system.Lisa Weasel - 2001 - Hypatia 16 (1):27-44.
Partial Reason: Critical and Constructive Transformations of Ethics and Epistemology.Sally E. Talbot - 2000 - Greenwood Press.
Asking different questions: Feminist practices for the natural sciences.Deboleena Roy - 2008 - Hypatia 23 (4):pp. 134-157.
Situating Feminist Epistemology.Louise M. Antony - 2000 - The Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 2000:31-40.
Analytics
Added to PP
2011-05-09
Downloads
566 (#17,358)
6 months
23 (#50,511)
2011-05-09
Downloads
566 (#17,358)
6 months
23 (#50,511)
Historical graph of downloads
Author's Profile
Citations of this work
Epistemologies of Discomfort: What Military-Family Anti-War Activists Can Teach Us about Knowledge of Violence.Shari Stone-Mediatore - 2010 - Studies in Social Justice 4 (1):25-45.