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Reflections on Feminist Scepticism, The “Maleness” of Philosophy and Postmodernism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Maureen Milligan
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Abstract

Bordo is concerned with what she calls apostmodem “theoretics of heterogeneity” that questions the validity of historical and cultural analyses “along gender-tines.” It also challenges the validity of feminist analyses concerning the “maleness” of philosophy. Not surprisingly, this has precipitated debate between postmodernists and those alarmed by its implications for feminist work. At issue is the epistemological and political capacity of feminism to analyze social power and dominance through an analysis of gender.1

Type
Symposium on Susan Bordo's “Feminist Skepticism and the ‘Maleness’ of Philosophy”
Information
Hypatia , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , Summer 1992 , pp. 166 - 172
Copyright
Copyright © 1992 by Hypatia, Inc.

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