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The essays in this interdisciplinary collection share the conviction that modern western paradigms of knowledge and reality are gender-biased. Some contributors
Bodies of Knowledge
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Pages: 218
Authors: Wendy Kline
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-10-15 - Publisher: University of Chicago Press

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Throughout the 1970s & 1980s, women argued that unless they gained information about their own bodies, there would be no equality. Wendy Kline considers the way
Sexing the Body
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Authors: Anne Fausto-Sterling
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Now updated with groundbreaking research, this award-winning classic examines the construction of sexual identity in biology, society, and history. Why do some
Space, Gender, Knowledge: Feminist Readings
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Authors: Linda McDowell
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'Space Gender Knowledge' is an innovative and comprehensive introduction to the geographies of gender and the gendered nature of spatial relations. It examines
Nature's Body
Language: en
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Authors: Londa L. Schiebinger
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Eighteenth-century natural historians created a peculiar, and peculiarly durable, vision of nature--one that embodied the sexual and racial tensions of that era