A Feminist I: Reflections from Academia
'A Feminist I' is a refreshingly honest and sharply analytical work in the new genre of theoretical autobiography. Our universities are the locus of ongoing debates over the politics of gender, class, disadvantage, and disability - and over the issue of "political correctness." In 'A Feminist I', Christine Overall offers wide-ranging reflections from a a first person point of view on these issues, and on the politics of the modern university itself. In doing so, she continually returns underlying epistemological concerns. What are our assumptions about the ways in which knowledge is constructed? To what degree are our perceptions shaped by our social roles and identities? In the past generation feminists have led the way in acknowledging the importance of such questions, and recognising also the ways in which personal experience may be an invaluable reference point in academic theory and practice. But reliance on personal experience is fraught with problems; how is one to deal with tensions between the autobiographical and the analytic? This book points the way to resolving some of these! tensions, and fruitfully sustaining others. It is a book of considerable insight, warm humanity, and genuine importance.
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| title: |
A Feminist I: Reflections from Academia |
| purchase date: |
09-09-2005 |
| publisher: |
Broadview Press |
| published: |
01-10-1998 |
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$22.95 |
| pages: |
214 |
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147986208 |
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Feminist Theory |
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A Feminist I: Reflections from Academia |
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| author: |
Christine Overall |
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Paperback |
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1551112191
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