num_pages: 384
description: The essays in this interdisciplinary collection share the conviction that modern western paradigms of knowledge and reality are gender-biased. Some contributors challenge and revise western conceptions of the body as the domain of the biological and 'natural,' the enemy of reason, typically associated with women.
language: English
title: Gender/Body/Knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions of Being and Knowing
titlecomplete: Gender/Body/Knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions of Being and Knowing
genres: Feminism, Philosophy, Sociology, Womens Studies, Essays, Nonfiction, Theory
ratings_count: 46
publisher: Rutgers University Press