Duran Worlds of Knowing

Global Feminist Epistemologies
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-135-02489-5
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 320 Seiten

Jane Duran's Worlds of Knowing begins to fill an enormous gap in the literature of feminist epistemology: a wide-ranging, cross-cultural primer on worldviews and epistemologies of various cultures and their appropriations by indigenous feminist movements in those cultures. It is the much needed epistemological counterpart to work on cross-cultural feminist social and political philosophy. This project is absolutely breath-taking in scope, yet a manageable read for anyone with some background in feminist theory, history, or anthropology. Duran draws many comparisons and connections to Western philosophical and feminist ideas, yet avoids facile or imperialistic over-universalization. Her book is powerful, comprehensive, Pnd brave. It will prove an enormously useful resource for scholars in women's studies, philosophy, anthropology, religious studies and history.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Duran, Jane

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; Acknowledgments; Part 1: Beginnings; Chapter 1: Knowledge/Foci; Examining the Poststructuralist Challenge; Postcolonialism and Its Impact on Theorizing; Knowledge, the Epistemic and Frames of Categorization; Women's Appropriation of Knowledge; The View from Everywhere; Part 2: Asian Focal Points; Chapter 2: Northern India and Its Cultures; Androcentrism and Its Manifestations; The Strands of the Feminine; An Historical View of Women; Women of Northern India Today; The Women's Movement in Northern India; Feminist Retrievals of Knowledge Traditions; Recapitulating the Northern Indian View; Chapter 3: Dravidian India and Its Cultures; Masculinism and Its Concomitants; Searching for the Gynocentric; An Historical Trajectory; Contemporary Women of the South; Feminism in the South; Reappropriating the Tradition; An Overview of the Dravidian Regions; Chapter 4: Bangladesh and Islam; The Male-Centered Point of View; Realms of the Feminine; The History of Bengali Women; The Current Status of Women in Bangladesh; A Nascent Feminist Movement; Feminist Reconstitutions of the View; Summarizing the Bangladeshi Situation; Chapter 5: Nepal and the Himalayan Societies; Articulating the Male-Oriented View; Female-Centering within the View; The Nepalese Woman's History; The Nepali Woman: A Contemporary Look; Feminist Beginnings in Nepal; Women and the Knowledge Path; The Nepalese View; Part 3: New World Focal Points; Chapter 6: Mexico and the Mestizaje; Macho, Male-Centeredness and Dominance; Female-Centeredness and Its Focal Points; Searching for the Historical Roots; Mexican Women Now; The Mexican Feminisms; Mexican Feminist Reconstructions of Knowledge; Recounting the Mexican Worldview; Chapter 7: Guatemala and the Indigenous; The Androcentric Outlook; The Gynocentric and the Traditional Culture; Historical Tie-ins and Their Importance; The Contemporary Guatemalan Woman; Feminisms of Guatemala; Reconstituting Knowledge; The Mayan Mythos; Chapter 8: Chicana/os; The Masculine and the Chicano; A Women-Centered View; History and the Chicana/o; The Chicana Today; A Chicana Feminist Outlook; Reconstructing Ways of Knowing; The Chicana/o Trajectory; Chapter 9: The African Diaspora in the United States; Tracing the Androcentric; Unraveling the Gynocentric; Black Women's Histories and Their Impacts; Contemporary Black Women; A Womanist/Feminist Response; Black Women's Rebuilding of Knowledge; The African Diaspora in the New World; Part 4: Endings; Chapter 10: Retrievals/Outcomes; Redefining Essentialisms; With Broad Strokes and Grosgrain; Knowledge, Knowing and Working; Sexualities and Categories; Conclusions, Wished-for and Actual; Notes; Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jane Duran is a Fellow in the Philosophy Department and a Lecturer in the Humanities at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Philosophies of Science/Feminist Theories (1997).