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Informationen zum Autor Hawkesworth, Mary Klappentext Feminist Inquiry provides scholars and students with a comprehensive guide to methodological issues within feminist scholarship. Mary Hawkesworth presents lucid introductions to key philosophical debates about the nature of knowledge, an original account of feminist scholarship’s contributions to these debates, and a sophisticated assessment of the analytical tools that feminist scholars have created to improve understandings of the world. Drawing upon contentious debates concerning the incidence of rape, public support for reproductive rights, affirmative action, and welfare reform, Hawkesworth demonstrates how seemingly abstract questions about the nature of knowledge have palpable effects on the lives of contemporary women and men. Zusammenfassung A comprehensive guide to methodological issues within feminist scholarship. Drawing upon the debates concerning the incidence of rape, public support for reproductive rights, and welfare reform, the author demonstrates how seemingly abstract questions about the nature of knowledge have palpable effects on the lives of contemporary women and men. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction Part I Knowledge and Feminist Knowledge Production Chapter 1 Sources of Error, Strategies of Redress Chapter 2 Grappling with Claims of Truth Chapter 3 Reconceptualizing Objectivity Chapter 4 Evidence Chapter 5 Evidence Blindness Part II Methodological Innovations Chapter 6 Gender as an Analytic Category Chapter 7 Feminist Standpoint Theory as Analytical Tool Chapter 8 Intersectionality Bibliography Index
