Toward a Feminist Epistemology (New Feminist Perspectives Series)

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Drawing on recent advances in analytic epistemology, feminist scholarship and philosophy of science, the author of this work proposes a feminist theory of knowledge. Jane Duran begins at the intersection between recent work in naturalized contemporary theory of knowledge and feminist theory. Her account not only elaborates on the possibility of rigorous feminist epistemology, but serves as an introduction to the androcentrism inherent in so much epistemological theorizing itself. Part One spells out what has counted as epistemology in the past, and why it is androcentric. In Part Two, Duran carefully and thoroughly develops a feminist theory of knowledge based on the moves in contemporary theorizing that are now available to us. Part Three ties together the feminist views from other disciplines or modes of viewing. Part Four reviews the arguments of the preceding chapters and prognosticates about the future of feminist epistemology, paying special attention to the most recent work in cognition and philosophy of mind. Contents Introduction Analytic Theory of Knowledge Naturalizing Theory of Knowledge The Feminist Theori Toward a Feminist Epistemology The Gynocentric Model Criticized French Feminist Viewpoints The Gynocentric Model Expanded Feminist Sociology of Knowledge The Future of the Gynocentric Model Bibliography Index