Gender/body/knowledge

Gender/body/knowledge
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Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Total Pages : 392
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ISBN-10 : 0813513790
ISBN-13 : 9780813513799
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Book Synopsis Gender/body/knowledge by : Alison M. Jaggar

Download or read book Gender/body/knowledge written by Alison M. Jaggar and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this interdisciplinary collection share the conviction that modern western paradigms of knowledge and reality are gender-biased. Some contributors challenge and revise western conceptions of the body as the domain of the biological and 'natural, ' the enemy of reason, typically associated with women.


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