Women and ReasonElizabeth D. Harvey, Kathleen Okruhlik University of Michigan Press, 1992 - 294 pages The idea of reason and its place in Western thought has long been a central topic for philosophers, histories, and cultural theorists. Some have claimed that since rationality is a male principle, the emphasis placed upon it has relegated women to secondary positions throughout the history of Western civilization. Women and Reason provides a revisionary assessment of the idea of reason and its relationship to femininity. The editors of this interdisciplinary collection have gathered essays that examine the concept of reason from a variety of perspectives and across a number of historical periods. Philosophers, philosophers of science, historians, literary critics, art historians, and theorists of culture address the idea of reason and how it has affected our notion of the feminine from the seventeenth century, the period many have seen as giving birth to our modern idea of rationality, to the present. Topics addressed include the place of women in seventeenth-century English culture, the relationship between women and religion in the writings of Francis Bacon and John Calvin, women and prophecy, and the relationship between gender and the origins of science. Examinations of nineteenth- and twentieth-century art and literature focus on the gendered linkage between madness and creativity and on abstract art's exclusion of the feminine. Other essays treat issues in feminist methodology such as whether reason and emotion are mutually exclusive, the role of experience in the construction of knowledge, and the place of language and consensus in the shaping of society. The result is a volume with far-reaching implications for the understanding of our cultural inheritance and for future feminist practice and theory. It will be of interest to scholars and students of philosophy, history, literary studies, art history, and the history and philosophy of science. |
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... provides an excellent example of the postmodern feminist position that Bordo discusses . Clay's " Eye to Eye " is ... provide , then , a multiple and complex challenge to the hegemony of the male , universal ideal of abstraction both by ...
... provides an excellent example of the postmodern feminist position that Bordo discusses . Clay's " Eye to Eye " is ... provide , then , a multiple and complex challenge to the hegemony of the male , universal ideal of abstraction both by ...
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... provides its shibboleth of nothing new under the sun , heard in many contexts beyond philosophical , perhaps most ... provide not only evidence for the extensiveness and frequency of the metaphor but also the flavor of its use . I shall ...
... provides its shibboleth of nothing new under the sun , heard in many contexts beyond philosophical , perhaps most ... provide not only evidence for the extensiveness and frequency of the metaphor but also the flavor of its use . I shall ...
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... provides a basis for critically reassessing extant ideology and theory where this leaves out women altogether or ... providing an explanatory understanding of the nature and sources of the patriarchal oppression 226 Women and Reason.
... provides a basis for critically reassessing extant ideology and theory where this leaves out women altogether or ... providing an explanatory understanding of the nature and sources of the patriarchal oppression 226 Women and Reason.
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Feminist Methodology in the Social | 15 |
Changing Conceptions of Authority and Reason | 39 |
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