Gender/Body/Knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions of Being and Knowing
by Alison M. Jaggar, Susan R. Bordo, Susan Bordo
Category: Philosophy

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.