1st Edition

Revolutions In Knowledge Feminism In The Social Sciences

    Recent feminist research has demonstrated how women have been neglected or misrepresented in virtually every discipline in the humanities and social sciences.

    Preface and Acknowledgments -- Feminism, Revolution, and Knowledge -- Changing Perspectives in Philosophy -- Feminism and Psychology -- Feminism and Sociology -- Anthropology: Feminist Methodologies for the Science of Man? -- Politics and Revision: The Feminist Project to Change the Boundaries of American Political Science -- A Female Perspective on Economic Man? -- Doing History Today -- The Contradiction and the Challenge of the Educated Woman

    Biography

    Sue Rosenberg Zalk is director of the Center for the Study of Women and Society at the Graduate School of the City University of New York and professor of psychology in the Department of Educational Foundations and Counseling Programs at Hunter College. She is co-author of Women's Realities, Women's Choices and Expectant Fathers and is the editor for Sex Roles: A Journal of Research. Janice Gordon-Kelter is grants assistant in the development office at the University of St. Thomas–Houston and former assistant director of the Center for the Study of Women and Society at the Graduate School of the City University of New York. She has a Ph.D. in history and is the author of numerous articles on medieval history.