Description
Book SynopsisA comprehensive guide to methodological issues within feminist scholarship. Drawing upon the debates concerning the incidence of rape, public support for reproductive rights, and welfare reform, the author demonstrates how seemingly abstract questions about the nature of knowledge have palpable effects on the lives of contemporary women and men.
Trade ReviewSuccinctly locating three decades of innovative feminist epistemological challenges in relation to Western philosophy and sexual politics, Mary Hawkesworth's Feminist Inquiry is a boldly erudite tour-de-force, invaluable and indispensable for specialist scholars and general readers alike. -- Judith A. Allen * professor of gender studies and history, Indiana University *
Feminist Inquiry accomplishes what many texts claim to, but few achieve, namely, a truly interdisciplinary approach. By explicating the philosophical, political, and empirical concerns that enliven feminist epistemology, Mary Hawkesworth provides a rich resource for anyone interested in answering the question 'how do feminists know? -- Nancy A. Naples * author of Feminism and Method: Ethnography, Discourse Analysis, and Activist Res *
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
Part I Knowledge and Feminist Knowledge Production
Chapter 1 Sources of Error, Strategies of Redress
Chapter 2 Grappling with Claims of Truth
Chapter 3 Reconceptualizing Objectivity
Chapter 4 Evidence
Chapter 5 Evidence Blindness
Part II Methodological Innovations
Chapter 6 Gender as an Analytic Category
Chapter 7 Feminist Standpoint Theory as Analytical Tool
Chapter 8 Intersectionality
Bibliography
Index
