Jane Duran's Worlds of Knowing begins to fill an enormous gap in the literature of feminist epistemology: a wide-ranging, cross-cultural primer on worldviews and epistemologies of various cultures and their appropriations by indigenous feminist movements in those cultures. It is the much needed epistemological counterpart to work on cross-cultural feminist social and political philosophy. This project is absolutely breath-taking in scope, yet a manageable read for anyone with some background in feminist theory, history, or anthropology. Duran draws many comparisons and connections to Western philosophical and feminist ideas, yet avoids facile or imperialistic over-universalization. Her book is powerful, comprehensive, and brave. It will prove an enormously useful resource for scholars in women's studies, philosophy, anthropology, religious studies and history.
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the ideal person to write a book on global feminist epistemologies. Her approach is historical and sociological as well as philosophical. The breadth and depth as well as the originality of Duran's book cannot be overemphasized.
–Rosemarie Tong, author of Feminine and Feminist Ethics
This book is very valuable for its useful information about women from a variety of backgrounds and perspectives..
–Michelle Renee Matisons, 2001
Those looking for a clear statement of contemporary work under the rubric of feminist philosophy should find this work very useful.
–Joanne B. Waugh, University of South Florida
–Rosemarie Tong, author of Feminine and Feminist Ethics
This book is very valuable for its useful information about women from a variety of backgrounds and perspectives..
–Michelle Renee Matisons, 2001
Those looking for a clear statement of contemporary work under the rubric of feminist philosophy should find this work very useful.
–Joanne B. Waugh, University of South Florida
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Jane Duran is a Fellow in the Philosophy Department and a Lecturer in the Humanities at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Philosophies of Science/Feminist Theories (1997).
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- Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions, and Third World Feminism (Thinking Gender) by Uma Narayan in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Mexico: A History by Robert Ryal Miller in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Spirited Women by Joanne C. Watkins in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Moral Knowing in a Hindu Sacred City by Steven M. Parish on page 121, and Back Matter
- A History of India by Hermann Kulke in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Eight Women Philosophers: Theory, Politics, and Feminism by Jane Duran in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- A Companion to Pragmatism (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy) by John R. Shook on page 92, and page 93
- Gendering the 'International' by Louiza Odysseos on page 12
- Feminist Inquiry: From Political Conviction to Methodological Innovation by Mary E. Hawkesworth in Back Matter
- Relativism (Problems of Philosophy) by Maria Baghramian in Back Matter
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