Gendered Agents
Subtitle: Women and Institutional Knowledge (boundary 2 book)
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: December 1998
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780822321798
Subjects: Epistemology, theory of knowledge; Feminism; Social Science; Sociology; Epistemology; Women's Studies - General; Gender Studies/Feminist Theory; Literary Studies/American Lite; cloth; Feminism & Feminist Theory; Feminist theory; Sexism in language
Description: Gendered Agents, edited by Silvestra Mariniello and Paul A. Bove, presents essays by influential feminist theorists who challenge traditional Western epistemology and suggest new directions for feminism. By examining both literary and historical discourses, such critics as Gayatri Spivak, Hortense Spillers, and Lauren Berlant assess questions of sexuality, ethics, race, psychoanalysis, subjectivity, and identity.