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How has feminist thinking shaped what we know? Emerging from the lecture series “Feminist Knowledge Reconsidered: Feminism and the Academy,” held at York University in 2009, Reconsidering Knowledge...
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How has feminist thinking shaped what we know? Emerging from the lecture series “Feminist Knowledge Reconsidered: Feminism and the Academy,” held at York University in 2009, Reconsidering Knowledge examines current ideas about feminism in relation to knowledge, education and society, and the future potential for feminist research and teaching in the university context. Connecting early stories of women who defied their exclusion from knowledge creation to contemporary challenges for feminism in universities, this collection assesses how feminist knowledge has influenced domi- nant thinking and transformed teaching and learning. It also focuses on the challenges for feminism as corporatization redefines the role of universities in a global world. The essays reflect on both historical and contemporary themes from a diversity of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, but are united in their exploration of how feminism’s continuing contribution to knowledge remains significant, even fundamental, to the transformation of knowledge in the academy and in our world.
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Price: $29.00
Pages: 168
Publisher: Fernwood Publishing
Imprint: Fernwood Publishing
Publication Date: 01 March 2012
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781552664766
Format: Paperback
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Feminism & Feminist Theory
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Meg Luxton is a professor in social science and women's studies at Atkinson College, York
University. She is the author of "Feminism and Families," "Getting By in Hard Times," "Minds of Our
Own," "More Than a Labor of Love," "Neoliberalism and Everyday Life," "Social Reproduction," and
"Through the Kitchen Window." Mary Jane Mossman is a professor of law at Osgoode Hall Law School,
York University, and the former director of Osgoode's Institute for Feminist Legal Studies. They
both live in Toronto, Ontario.

: Contributor Biographies
: Introduction (Mary Jane Mossman and Meg Luxton)
: Part One: Feminism and the Academy: Revealing the “Other”
: Feminism and the Academy: Transforming Knowledge? (Meg Luxton)
: Cartographies of Knowledge and Power: Transnational Feminism as Radical Praxis (M. Jacqui Alexander & Chandra Talpade Mohanty)
: Sexual Diversity in Cosmopolitan Perspective (Elisabeth Young-Bruehl)
: Part Two: Feminism and the Academy: (Re)Engaging the “Knowledge Revolution”
: Universities Upside Down: The Impact of the New Knowledge Economy (Margaret Thornton)
: The University on-the-Ground: Reflections on the Canadian Experience (Janice Newson)
: Part Three: Feminism and the Academy: Remembering History/ Recalling Resistance
: Bluestockings and Goddesses: Writing Feminist Cultural History (Ann Shteir)
: Feminism, Ecological Thinking and the Legacy of Rachel Carson (Lorraine Code)
: References