Susan Hekman 
Gender and Knowledge [EPUB ebook] 
Elements of a Postmodern Feminism

After the success of the hardback, students and academics will
welcome the publication of this book in paperback.

The aim of the book is to explore the connection between two
perspectives that have had a profound effect upon contemporary
thought: post-modernism and feminism. Through bringing together and
systematically analysing the relations between these, Hekman is
able to make a major intervention into current debates in social
theory and philosophy.

The critique of Enlightenment knowledge, she argues, is at the
core of both post-modernism and feminism. Each also offers a basis
for critical reflections about the other. In particular,
post-modern philosophy provides a means of criticizing aspects of
contemporary feminism and thus contributing to the development of a
more sophisticated approach to current feminist issues.

Table of Content

1 Modernism, Postmodernism and Feminism.

2 Rational/Irrational.

3 Subject/Object.

4 Nature/Culture.

5 The Possibilities of a Postmodern Feminism.

References.

About the author

Susan Hekman was previously Visiting Associate Professor at the University of Washington.