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264 Pages
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Routledge
264 Pages
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Routledge
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Michele Le Doeuff is a leading French philosopher, and one of the most important feminist thinkers writing today. The Sex of Knowing , Le Doeuff's most significant work to date, provides a comprehensive account of her views. This is the first English translation of her inspiring book. Le Doeuff's target is the continuing tendency to think that men are more rational, more analytic than women,... Read more
Introduction 1.Cast-Offs 1.1 How Intuition Came to Women 1.2 Woman as an Object of Discourse: An Inquiry Into Categories 1.3 Values/Countervalues 1.4 Knowledge and Power 1.5 Anti-Intellectualism 1.6 Essays on Original Sin 1.7 A Knowing Subject in Process 1.8 Coherences 1.9 Divine Plato? 1.10 Eve's Awakening/Apollo's Ruling: Two Banquets Juxtaposed 2. Renaissances 2.1 The Intermittent Existence of Women Doctors 2.2 A Cognitive Norm 2.3 Knowing by Dreaming? Object Versus Objectification 2.4 Construction of an Object or Definition of a Field? 2.5 Lady Trotula 2.6 Being as One is Perceived 2.7 Legal Counsel on Strike 2.8 Verum Index Sui 2.9 Interlude 2.10 Masculine Foreclosures of Knowledge 2.11 Epikleroi 2.12 Three Headscarves 2.13 The Jailer's Catechism 2.14 A Little Learning 2.15 The Judgement of Christine 3. An Epistemology of Hope 3.1 Take An Aspirin 3.2 An Offensive Philosophy, but to Whom? 3.3 Sciences, Humanities, and Philosophy 3.4 Finalities 3.5 The Alchemy of the Word 3.6 Phallomelancholia or Gay Science? 3.7 Duplicities 3.8 Neutrality 3.9 Factual Violence/Ideational Violence 3.10 Visions 3.11 The Liberal Experience 3.12 Saint Scholastica 3.13 A Woman and a Man in Philosophy 3.14 The Admirable Essay 3.15 Equality, Difference, or Divergence? 3.16 Corporations Epilogue Notes Index
Biography
Michèle Le Doeuff is Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Her other works translated into English are The Philosophical Imaginary (1989) and Hipparchia's Choice: An Essay Concerning Women, Philosophy, etc.(1991). Lorraine Code is Distinguished Research Professor Department of Philosophy, York University. Kathryn Hamer is Professor of French and Dean of Arts, Letters and Humanities at Mount Allison University.
