Knowing Feminisms: On Academic Borders, Territories and Tribes

Knowing Feminisms looks at feminism as a vital source of new knowledge and new ways of working throughout a range of disciplines. It also scrutinizes the sometimes highly problematic forms its presence within academia can take. The contributors, all well-known feminist academics, discuss the epistemological and ontological borderlands′ that feminisms inhabit, which although within, still remain other′ to, the academy.

The book addresses fundamentally important questions such as: Should feminists work within traditional disciplines or abandon them in favour of Women′s Studies? Is the idea of feminist pedagogy as empowerment′ actually one which de-skills? Does the feminist transformation of some academic disciplines

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803975414
• ISBN13: 9780803975415
• Release Date: March 1997
• Publisher: Sage Publications UK
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"