FEMINIST EPISTEMOLOGIES CL

Thinking Gender

by Linda Martín Alcoff

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.\

Genres: Philosophy, Feminism, Gender, Theory, Academic, Womens, Gender Studies

312 pages, Hardcover

First published December 21, 1992

About the author

Linda Martín Alcoff (born July 25, 1955 in Panama) is a philosopher at the City University of New York who specializes in epistemology, feminism, race theory and existentialism. From 2012 to 2013, she served as president of the American Philosophical Association (APA), Eastern Division. Alcoff has called for greater inclusion of historically under represented groups in philosophy and notes that philosophers from these groups have created new fields of inquiry, including feminist philosophy, critical race theory, and LGBTQ philosophy. To help address these issues, with Paul Taylor and William Wilkerson, she started the Pluralist Guide to Philosophy. She earned her PhD in Philosophy from Brown University. She was recognized as the distinguished Woman Philosopher of 2005 by the Society for Women in Philosophy and the APA. She began teaching at Hunter College and the City University of New York Graduate Center in early 2009, after teaching for many years at Syracuse University.

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Reviews

[Arda · Rating 4 out of 5]

Notes taken mostly from Alcoff contributions in journals:

In ‘The Problem of Speaking for Others,” Alcoff (1991) demonstrates that the locations of privilege can be dangerous as it creates large gaps between what is spoken of and who is spoken for; there is something that is constructed in that process of representation, and it is not disconnected from the ‘power’ of discourse as well as the ‘power’ of place (Alcoff, 1991).

[Esther Friedlander · Rating 4 out of 5]

Interesting collection... includes some duds for sure but I think maybe intentionally to put it in conversation with the things that make sense? Idk but Bar On should probably not be supported lol she says some crazy shit

[jpnmusings · Rating 3 out of 5]

Performative male-dar except it's feminist epistemologies instead of the bell jar !

[John · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have found this an immensely suggestive book, collecting as it does essays from both prominent and rising figures in feminist philosophy of knowledge--albeit from about two decades ago. I am struck by how little impact feminist thought, even of this high and generally temperate quality, has had on evangelical theology, to the shame of my guild.

If you're new to the idea, let alone the discourse, of feminist epistemology, this is an excellent place to start.

[Angie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I used this for one of the cornerstones on my master's thesis about modern society's view of midwives bv. doctors and how we are legitimized by the way in which we learn things. Fascinating!

[Elizabeth]

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