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Introduction: Introducing Knowledge That Matters

Introduction: Introducing Knowledge That Matters 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 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies University of Nebraska Press

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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

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Frontiers: A Journal of Women StudiesUniversity of Nebraska Press

Published: May 30, 2009

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