Worlds of knowing : global feminist epistemologies /
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| Author / Creator: | Duran, Jane. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Routledge, 2001. |
| Description: | xvi, 304 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4478784 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part 1. Beginnings
- Chapter 1. Knowledges/Foci
- Examining the Poststructuralist Challenge
- Postcolonialism and Its Impact on Theorizing
- Knowledge, the Epistemic, and Frames of Categorization
- Women's Appropriation of Knowledge
- The View from Everywhere
- Part 2. Asian Focal Points
- Chapter 2. Northern India and Its Cultures
- Androcentrism and Its Manifestations
- The Strands of the Feminine
- An Historical View of Women
- Women of Northern India Today
- The Women's Movement in Northern India
- Feminist Retrievals of Knowledge Traditions
- Recapitulating the Northern Indian View
- Chapter 3. Dravidian India and Its Cultures
- Masculinism and Its Concomitants
- Searching for the Gynocentric
- An Historical Trajectory
- Contemporary Women of the South
- Feminism in the South
- Reappropriating the Tradition
- An Overview of the Dravidian Regions
- Chapter 4. Bangladesh and Islam
- The Male-Centered Point of View
- Realms of the Feminine
- The History of Bengali Women
- The Current Status of Women in Bangladesh
- A Nascent Feminist Movement
- Feminist Reconstitutions of the View
- Summarizing the Bangladeshi Situation
- Chapter 5. Nepal and the Himalayan Societies
- Articulating the Male-Oriented View
- Female-Centering within the View
- The Nepalese Woman's History
- The Nepali Woman: A Contemporary Look
- Feminist Beginnings in Nepal
- Women and the Knowledge Path
- The Nepalese View
- Part 3. New World Focal Points
- Chapter 6. Mexico and the Mestizaje
- Macho, Male-Centeredness, and Dominance
- Female-Centeredness and Its Focal Points
- Searching for the Historical Roots
- Mexican Women Now
- The Mexican Feminisms
- Mexican Feminist Reconstructions of Knowledge
- Recounting the Mexican Worldview
- Chapter 7. Guatemala and the Indigenous
- The Androcentric Outlook
- The Gynocentric and the Traditional Culture
- Historical Tie-ins and Their Importance
- The Contemporary Guatemalan Woman
- Feminisms of Guatemala
- Reconstituting Knowledge
- The Mayan Mythos
- Chapter 8. Chicana/os
- The Masculine and the Chicano
- A Woman-Centered View
- History and the Chicana/o
- The Chicana Today
- A Chicana Feminist Outlook
- Reconstructing Ways of Knowing
- The Chicana/o Trajectory
- Chapter 9. The African Diaspora in the United States
- Tracing the Androcentric
- Unraveling the Gynocentric
- Black Women's Histories and Their Impacts
- Contemporary Black Women
- A Womanist/Feminist Response
- Black Women's Rebuilding of Knowledge
- The African Diaspora in the New World
- Part 4. Endings
- Chapter 10. Retrievals/Outcomes
- Redefining Essentialisms
- With Broad Strokes and Grosgrain
- Knowledge, Knowing, and Working
- Sexualities and Categories
- Conclusions, Wished-for and Actual
- Notes
- Index
