Access the full text.
Sign up today, get DeepDyve free for 14 days.
References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.
Introduction Introducing Knowledge That Matters nancy d. campbell and mary margaret fonow As we read the many pieces submitted for this special issue, "Knowledge That Matters: Feminist Epistemology, Methodology, and Science Studies," we found we needed multiple literacies to understand the numerous types of writing and art. The transdisciplinarity of this volume stretched us, as we found ourselves reading contributions that spanned feminist political economy, feminist deconstruction, feminist ethnography, feminist sociology of knowledge, and the masculinist history of demography, and explored other, less nameable intersections of social and political worlds we thought perhaps could not be encompassed in one volume. Many authors set out to put disparate conceptual frameworks into conversation with one another, or to reframe ongoing conversations in their social worlds. All the work centrally concerns knowledge that somehow matters to feminists. Taking as a basic feminist tenet that all knowledge is situated within the social conditions of its production, we chose pieces that illustrate the multiple perspectives from which the world and its knowers are co-constituted. Most of the artists and authors raise epistemological questions that were simultaneously about particular modes of expertise within the politics of knowledge. Readers will no doubt encounter some of
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies – University of Nebraska Press
Published: May 30, 2009
Read and print from thousands of top scholarly journals.
Already have an account? Log in
Bookmark this article. You can see your Bookmarks on your DeepDyve Library.
To save an article, log in first, or sign up for a DeepDyve account if you don’t already have one.
Copy and paste the desired citation format or use the link below to download a file formatted for EndNote
Access the full text.
Sign up today, get DeepDyve free for 14 days.
All DeepDyve websites use cookies to improve your online experience. They were placed on your computer when you launched this website. You can change your cookie settings through your browser.