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A Feminist I : Reflections from Academia

Christine Overall

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Our universities are the locus of ongoing debates over the politics of gender, of class, of disadvantage and disability—and over the issue of "political correctness." In A Feminist I Christine Overall offers wide-ranging reflections from a first-person point of view on these issues, and on the politics of the modern university itself. In doing so she continually returns to underlying epistemological concerns. What are our assumptions about the ways in which knowledge is constructed? To what degree are our perceptions shaped by our social roles and identities? In the past generation feminists have led the way in recognising the importance of such questions, and recognising too the ways in which personal experience may be an invaluable reference point in academic theory and practice. But reliance on personal experience is fraught with problems; how is one to deal with tensions between the autobiographical and the analytic? This book points the way to resolving some of those tensions, and to fruitfully sustaining others. It is a book of considerable insight, warm humanity, and genuine importance.

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Acknowledgments
Page 10-15

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Chapter 1 Introduction: A Feminist Od(d)yssey
Page 16-31

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Chapter 2 Role Muddles
Page 32-57

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Chapter 3 Women and Men in Education
Page 58-87

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Chapter 4 A Tale of Two Classes
Page 88-107

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Chapter 5 "Nowhere at Home"
Page 108-127

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Chapter 6 Feeling Fraudulent
Page 128-151

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Chapter 7 Passing for Normal
Page 152-173

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Chapter 8 Personal Histories, Social Identities, and Feminist Philosophical Inquiry
Page 174-199

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References
Page 200-215

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Title

A Feminist I

Subtitle

Reflections from Academia

Contributors

Christine Overall

Publisher

Broadview Press

Publication date

1998-01-01

Pages

214

Print ISBN

9781551112190

eBook ISBN

9781459309814

LC Subjects

Feminist theory., Feminism and education., Universities and colleges - Social aspects., Women college teachers.

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College/higher education

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