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Applying the Concept of Gender: Unsettled Questions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Jane S. Upin
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Abstract

In commenting on Susan Bordo's discussion of gender bias, 1 both support and build on her contention that women's exclusion from philosophical discourse has been epistemologically and politically significant. But I also explore difficulties associated with applying the concept of gender and I voice concern about how to characterize the perspectives we share as women. Finally, I consider some theoretical and political limitations of utilizing gender as an analytical category.

Type
Symposium on Susan Bordo's “Feminist Skepticism and the ‘Maleness’ of Philosophy”
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Hypatia , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , Summer 1992 , pp. 180 - 187
Copyright
Copyright © 1992 by Hypatia, Inc.

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