Theories of Women's Studies - Google Books
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This foundational academic text unpacks the competing theoretical frameworks behind Women's Studies — revealing how feminist epistemology challenges the very way knowledge itself is produced and validated.
Feminist Standpoint TheoryEpistemologySocial ConstructionismCritical Theory
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- Gloria Bowles and Renate Duelli Klein's 294-page volume maps the theoretical foundations that gave Women's Studies its intellectual legitimacy as a discipline.
- The book interrogates how mainstream academic frameworks have historically excluded women's experiences, drawing on feminist standpoint theory.
- By questioning who produces knowledge and whose lives it reflects, the text connects feminist theory directly to broader debates about power and epistemology.