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Gender And Knowledge: Elements of a Postmodern Feminism (New England Series On Feminist Theory)
9781555531294

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Susan J. Hekman

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Table of contents :
Contents
Modernism, Postmodernism, and Feminism
Rational/Irrational
Subject/ Object
Nature/Culture
The Possibilities of a Postmodern Feminism
References
Index

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Gender and Knowledge Elements of a Postmodern Feminism

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Copyright © 1990 by Susan J. Hekman First published in Great Britain in 1990 by Polity Press. First published in the United States of America in 1990 by Northeastern University Press. Paperback edition 1992. All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purposes of criticism and review, no part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or any information storage and retrieval system now known or to be invented, without written permission of the publisher.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Hekman, Susan J. Gender and knowledge: elements of a postmodern feminism / by Susan J. Hekman. p. cm.-(Northeastern series in feminist theory) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-55553-129-6 (pbk.) 1. Feminism-Philosophy. 2. Postmodemism. I. Title. II. Series HQ1206.H45 1992 305.42'01-dc20

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