Knowledge, Difference, And Power : Essays Inspired By Women's Ways Of Knowing

Blythe Clinchy

ISBN 10: 046503733X / ISBN 13: 9780465037339

Verlag: Basic Books Apr 1998, 1998

Beschreibung

Neuware - When WOMEN'S WAYS OF KNOWING appeared in 1986, it was embraced by a cult following as an intellectual and political OUR BODIES, OURSELVES. The theory the book outlined has had significant impact on debates about learning and gender. Now the original authors and invited contributors explore how the theory has been received--and expand the argument to address the complicated factors of race, class, and culture.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780465037339

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Knowledge, Difference, And Power : Essays Inspired By Women's Ways Of Knowing
• Verlag: Basic Books Apr 1998
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1998
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 046503733X
• ISBN-13: 9780465037339
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Zustand: Neu

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Inhaltsangabe

An impressive and innovative follow up to Women's Ways of Knowing, this book shows how the authors' ways of knowing" theory revolutionized the fields of law, education, psychology, and women's studies, to name but a few. In essence, this dynamic collection poses the ultimate question: Can we come to understand and respect diverse ways of knowing? Features: 15 essays, all written exclusively for this volume the essays are by the original authors of Women's Ways of Knowing and prominent contributors, including Sandra Harding, Aida Hurtado, Sara Ruddick, Michael Mahoney, and Patricinio Schweickart in separate chapters, the authors explore how their thinking has developed and changed since Women's Ways of Knowing argument is expanded beyond gender and knowledge to address the factors of colour, class, and culture.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mary Field Belenky is a consultant on human development and an associate research professor at the University of Vermont. she lives in Marshfield, Vermont and New York City.Blythe McVicker Clinchy is a professor of psychology at Wellesley College and lives in Boston, Massachusetts and Marshfield, Vermont.Nancy Rule Goldberger is a member of the psychology faculty of The Fielding Institute in Santa Barbara, California, and lives in Housatonic, Massachusetts and New York City.Jill Mattuck Tarule is a professor and the dean of the College of Education and Social Services at the University of Vermont and lives in Essex, Vermont.