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The Future of Differences – Truth and Method in Feminist Theory

Autor SJ Hekman
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 oct 1999
This key work addresses one of the most central and controversial issues in contemporary feminist theory: the problem of difference. Hekman argues that the current focus on differences among women - race, class, sexual orientation, and ethnicity - necessitates a new approach to feminist social critique.


Hekman traces the history of feminist accounts of difference, from Simone de Beauvoir to Donna Haraway and beyond. She examines the ways in which feminists have tried to erase, emphasize or pluralize difference. She argues that we need new definitions of method and truth which avoid the twin liabilities of universalistic assumptions and postmodern nihilism. Hekman develops an approach that recognizes differences between women without abandoning the general concepts which are necessary to social critique. She employs the work of many contemporary theorists, including Weber, Gadamer and Wittgenstein, to formulate a new feminist methodology and epistemology for the social sciences.


This new approach will help to define truths rather than truth, differences rather than difference, in future feminist thought.


This important book will be essential reading for advanced undergraduate students, postgraduates and scholars in feminist theory, philosophy and political theory.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780745623795
ISBN-10: 0745623794
Pagini: 184
Dimensiuni: 153 x 230 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Polity Press
Locul publicării:Chichester, United Kingdom

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Advanced level undergraduate students, postgraduates and scholars in feminist theory, philosophy and political theory.

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aeo Addresses one of the most pressing problems in contemporary feminist theory -- the issue of differences. aeo Develops an original approach which draws on the work of an array of contemporary theorists -- Weber, Gadamer and Wittgenstein -- to formulate a new feminist methodology for the social sciences.