The Future of Differences

Truth and Method in Feminist Theory

Susan J. Hekman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

184 Seiten

1999
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-0-7456-2379-5 (ISBN)

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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.

Susan Hekman is Professor of Political Science, University of Texas at Arlington.

1. The Problem of Difference. The Other.

From erasure to emphasis.

From difference to differences.

The future of differences.

2. From Difference to Differences: The Case of Feminist Standpoint Theory.

Defining the feminist standpoint.

The challenge of difference: redefining the feminist standpoint.

Toward a new paradigm.

3. A Method for Differences.

Feminism, method and difference.

Weber's ideal type.

Feminist ideal types.

Conclusion.

4. The Epistemology of Moral Voice: Displacing Hegemony in Moral/Legal Discourse. .

Different moral voices. Different legal voices.

A new legal game.

An alternative moral epistemology: multiple voices.

5. Backgrounds and Riverbeds: Feminist Reflections.

Theories of the Background.

Subverting the Background.

Shifting the riverbed.

Conclusion.

Notes.

References.

Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	15.10.1999
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 231 mm
Gewicht	277 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7456-2379-4 / 0745623794
ISBN-13	978-0-7456-2379-5 / 9780745623795
Zustand	Neuware