Discovering Reality : Feminist Perspectives on Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science /
This collection of essays, first published two decades ago, presents central feminist critiques and analyses of natural and social sciences and their philosophies. Unfortunately, in spite of the brilliant body of research and scholarship in these fields in subsequent decades, the insights of these e...
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands,
2003.
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| Edition: | Second Edition. |
| Series: | Synthese library ;
161. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction to the Second Edition
- Contributor's Notes: 2003. Introduction
- Woman is Not a Rational Animal: On Aristotle's Biology of Reproduction
- Aristotle and the Politicization of the Soul
- The Unit of Political Analysis: Our Aristotlian Hangover
- Have Only Men Evolved?- Evolution and Patriarchal Myths of Scarcity and Competition
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Forerunner of a Feminist Social Science
- The Trivialization of the Notion of Equality
- How Can Language be Sexist?- A Paradigm of Philosophy: The Adversary Method
- The Man of Professional Wisdom
- Gender and Science
- The Mind's Eye
- Individualism and the Objects of Psychology
- Political Philosophy and the Patriarchal Unconscious: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Epistemology and Metaphysics
- The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism
- Why Has the Sex/Gender System become Visible only Now?- Index of Names.