Knowledge, Difference, and Power

by Goldberger, Nancy Rule; Tarule, Jill Mattuck; Clinchy, Blythe McVicker; Belenky, Mary Field

• ISBN13: 9780465090983
• ISBN10: 0465090982
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-11-01
• Publisher: Basic Books

Summary

Ten years ago, Mary Belenky, Blythe Clinchy, Nancy Goldberger, and Jill Tarule wrote Women's Ways of Knowing, a book the New York Times Book Review called "a framework for future research on women, knowledge, and identity." In the decade that followed, their theory of women's psychology, development, and ways of knowing has been applied in several fields, from the social sciences to the humanities, women's studies, education, psychology, and law. But even as it was embraced by readers, Women's Ways of Knowing also became the center of a fierce debate within academic circles.
Now, in fourteen illuminating new essays, the original authors and invited contributors explore how the theory introduced in Women's Ways of Knowing has developed and shifted over the years and how it has been received, applied, used, and abused. The authors, and others, respond to critics of the original theory. The essays also expand the original argument beyond gender and knowing to address the complicating factors of race, class, and culture.

Table of Contents

Preface the Beginning of the Story: Collaboration and Separation	p. xi
Introduction Looking Backward, Looking Forward	p. 1
Notes	p. 18
References	p. 19
the Past Decade: Women's Ways of Knowing Applied	p. 23
Stirring Conclusion	p. 25
Women's Ways of """"Knowing"""" Law Feminist Legal Epistemology, Pedagogy, and Jurisprudence	p. 57
References	p. 77
Embodying Knowledge, Knowing Desire: Authority and Split Subjectivities in Girls' Epistemological Development	p. 115
Notes	p. 117
Refferences	p. 119
Connected Knowing in Constructive Psychotherapy	p. 126
Notes	p. 143
References	p. 144
Women's Ways of Knowing in Women's Studies, Feminist Pedagogies, and Feminist Theory	p. 148
Women's Ways of Knowing in Women's Studies, Feminist Pedagogies, and Feminist Theory	p. 148
Notes	p. 171
References	p. 172
Unknown Women and Unknowing Research: Consequences of Color and Class in Feminist Psychology	p. 175
Conclusions and Recommendations	p. 196
References	p. 199
New Directions: Connected and Collaborative Knowing	p. 203
Connected and Separate Knowing Toward a Marriage of Two Minds	p. 205
Reason's """"Femininity"""" a Case for Connected Knowing""""	p. 248
Voices in Dialogue: Collaborative Ways of Knowing	p. 300
Speech is Silver, Silence is Gold: The Asymmetrical Intersubjectivity of Communicative Action	p. 305
References	p. 324
New Directions: Culture, Power, and Knowing	p. 333
Conclusions	p. 360
Strategic Suspensions: Feminists of Color Theorize the Production of Knowledge	p. 386
Public Homeplaces Nurturing the Development of People, Families, and Communities	p. 393
Gendered Ways of Knowing and the """"Epistemological Crisis"""" of the West	p. 431
Contributors	p. 455
Subject Index	p. 461
Author Index	p. 475
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