1st Edition

Engenderings Constructions of Knowledge, Authority, and Privilege

By Naomi Scheman Copyright 1993
    280 Pages
    by Routledge

    280 Pages
    by Routledge

    Naomi Scheman argues that the concerns of philosophy emerge not from the universal human condition but from conditions of privilege. Her books represents a powerful challenge to the notion that gender makes no difference in the construction of philosophical reasoning. At the same time, it criticizes the narrow focus of most feminist theorizing and calls for a more inclusive form of inquiry.

    Chapter 1 Introduction: The Unavoidability of Gender; Part I Gender and (Inter)subjectivity; Chapter 2 On Sympathy; Chapter 3 Anger and the Politics of Naming; Chapter 4 Individualism and the Objects of Psychology; Part II Constructions of Gender and Authority; Chapter 5 Othello's Doubt/Desdemona's Death: The Engendering of Scepticism; Chapter 6 Though This Be Method, Yet There Is Madness in It: Paranoia and Liberal Epistemology; Chapter 7 From Hamlet to Maggie Verver: The History and Politics of the Knowing Subject; Chapter 8 Missing Mothers / Desiring Daughters: Framing the Sight of Women; Part III Conversations on the Margins; Chapter 9 On Competition: Some Stray Thoughts on Baseball, Sex, and Art; Chapter 10 Thinking about Quality in Women's Visual Art; Chapter 11 Photography and the Politics of Vision; Chapter 12 Art For Our Sake; Chapter 13 Art For Our Sake; Chapter 14 Coming to Know Women's Ways of Knowing; Chapter 15 Changing the Subject; Part IV The Body of Privilege; Chapter 16 The Body Politic / The Impolitic Body / Bodily Politics; Chapter 17 Your Ground Is My Body: The Politics of Anti-Foundationalism; Chapter 18 Who Wants To Know?: The Epistemological Value of Values; Part V (In)Conclusion; Chapter 19 Who Is That Masked Woman?: Reflections on Power, Privilege, and Home-ophobia; Chapter 20 Undoing Philosophy as a Feminist; Chapter 21 Confessions of an Analytic Philosopher Semi-Manqué;

    Biography

    Naomi Scheman