The Sex of Knowing

List of contents

Introduction 1.Cast-Offs 1.1 How Intuition Came to Women 1.2 Woman as an Object of Discourse: An Inquiry Into Categories 1.3 Values/Countervalues 1.4 Knowledge and Power 1.5 Anti-Intellectualism 1.6 Essays on Original Sin 1.7 A Knowing Subject in Process 1.8 Coherences 1.9 Divine Plato? 1.10 Eve's Awakening/Apollo's Ruling: Two Banquets Juxtaposed 2. Renaissances 2.1 The Intermittent Existence of Women Doctors 2.2 A Cognitive Norm 2.3 Knowing by Dreaming? Object Versus Objectification 2.4 Construction of an Object or Definition of a Field? 2.5 Lady Trotula 2.6 Being as One is Perceived 2.7 Legal Counsel on Strike 2.8 Verum Index Sui 2.9 Interlude 2.10 Masculine Foreclosures of Knowledge 2.11 Epikleroi 2.12 Three Headscarves 2.13 The Jailer's Catechism 2.14 A Little Learning 2.15 The Judgement of Christine 3. An Epistemology of Hope 3.1 Take An Aspirin 3.2 An Offensive Philosophy, but to Whom? 3.3 Sciences, Humanities, and Philosophy 3.4 Finalities 3.5 The Alchemy of the Word 3.6 Phallomelancholia or Gay Science? 3.7 Duplicities 3.8 Neutrality 3.9 Factual Violence/Ideational Violence 3.10 Visions 3.11 The Liberal Experience 3.12 Saint Scholastica 3.13 A Woman and a Man in Philosophy 3.14 The Admirable Essay 3.15 Equality, Difference, or Divergence? 3.16 Corporations Epilogue Notes Index

About the author

Michèle Le Doeuff is Director of Research at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. Her other works translated into English are The Philosophical Imaginary (1989) and Hipparchia's Choice: An Essay ConcerningWomen, Philosophy, etc.(1991). Lorraine Code is Distinguished Research Professor Department of Philosophy, York University. Kathryn Hamer is Professor of French and Dean of Arts, Letters and Humanities at Mount Allison University.

Summary

In this text, Le Doeuff argues that the conceptual links between "masculinity" and "rationality" are deeply rooted in the public imagination and continue to have devastating effects on what women are able to achieve.

Product details

• Authors: M. Le Doeuff, Michele Le Doeuff, Michèle Le Doeuff, Michele Le Duff
• Assisted by: Lorraine Code (Translation), Code Lorraine (Translation), Kathryn Hamer (Translation), Hamer Kathryn (Translation)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.09.2003
• EAN: 9780415928601
• ISBN: 978-0-415-92860-1
• No. of pages: 264
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 490 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Feminism & feminist theory, Western philosophy from c 1800, Feminism and feminist theory, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge