The Knowledge Explosion: Generations of Feminist Scholarship (Athene Series)

556 Pages·1992·140.936 MB·English

by  Cheris Kramarae, Dale Spender (editor)

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GENERATIONS OF FEMINIST SCHOLARSHIP
EDITED BY
ATHENE SERIES

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An International Collection of Feminist Books
General Editors: Gloria Bowles, Renate Klein, Janice Raymond
Consulting Editor: Dale Spender
The Athene Series assumes that all those who are concerned with formulating
explanations of the way the world works need to know and appreciate the signi
ficance of basic feminist principles.
The growth of feminist research internationally has called into question almost
all aspects of social organization in our culture. The Athene Series focuses on the
construction of knowledge and the exclusion of women from the process-both
as theorists and as subjects of study-and offers innovative studies that challenge
established theories and research.
Athene, the Olympian goddess of wisdom, was honored by the ancient Greeks as
the patron of arts and sciences and guardian of cities. She represented both peace
and the intellectual aspect of war. Her mother, Metts, was a Titan and presided
over all knowledge. While pregnant with Athene, Metis was swallowed whole
by Zeus. Some say this was his attempt to embody her supreme wisdom. The
original Athene is thus twice born: once of her strong mother, Metis, and once
more out of the head of Zeus. According to feminist myth, there is a "third birth"
of Athene when she stops being an agent and mouthpiece of Zeus and male
dominance, and returns to her original source: the wisdom of womankind.
Men's Studies Modified: The lmpad of Black Feminist Criticism:
Feminism on the Academic Disciplines Perspectives on Black Women Writers
Dale Spender, Editor Barbara Christian
Woman's Nature: The Sister Bond:
Rationalizations of Inequality A Feminist View of a Timeless Connection
Marian Lowe and Ruth Hubbard, Editors Toni A.H. McNaron, Editor
Machina Ex Dea: Educating for Peace:
Feminist Perspedives on Technology A Feminist Perspective
Joan Rothschild, Editor Birgit Brock-Utne
Science and Gender: A Critique of Biology Stopping Rape:
and Its Theories on Women Successful Survival Strategies
Pauline B. Bart and Patricia H. O'Brien
Ruth Bleier
Men's Ideas/ Women's Realities: Teaching Technology from a Feminist
Popular Science, 1870-1915 Perspective: A Pradical Guide
Louise Michele Newman, Editor Joan Rothschild
Feminist Approaches to Science The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on
Ruth Bleier, Editor Feminism
Dorchen Leidholdt and Janice G.
Teaching Science and Health from a
Raymond, Editors
Feminist Perspective: A Practical Guide
Sue V. Rosser Whence the Goddesses: A Source Book
Miriam Robbins Dexter
Inspiring Women:
Reimagining the Muse Narodniki Women:
Russian Women Who Sacrificed Themselves
Mary K. Deshazer
for the Dream of Freedom
Made lo Order: The Myth of Reproductive
Ma.rgaret Maxwell
and Genetic Progress
Patricia Spallone and Deborah Lynn Female-Friendly Science:
Applying Women's Studies Methods and
Steinberg, Editors
Theories to Attract Students
Feminism Within the Science and Health
Sue V. Rosser
Care Professions: Overcoming Resistance
Sue V. Rosser, Editor Speaking Freely:
Unlearning the Lies of the Fathers' Tongues
Russian Women's Studies:
Julia Penelope
Essays on Sexism in the Soviet Culture
Tatyana Mamonova Between Worlds:
Women Writers of Chinese Ancestry
Taking Our Time: Amy Ling
Feminist Perspectives on Temporality
The Reflowering of the Goddess
Frieda Johles Forman, Editor, with
Gloria Feman Orenstein
Caoran Sowton
All Sides of the Subject:
Radical Voices:
Women and Biography
A Decade of Feminist Resistance from
Teresa Iles, Editor
Women's Studies International Forum
Renate D. Klein and Deborah Lynn
Calling the Equality Bluff:
Steinberg, Editors
Women in Israel
B~bara Swirski and Marilyn P. Safir,
The Recurring Silent Spring
Editors
H. Patricia Hynes
Living by the Pen:
Exposing Nuclear Phallades
Early British Women Writers
Diana E. H. Russell, Editor
Dale Spender, Editor
The Writing or the Sex?
Keepers of the History: Women and the
or why you don't have to read
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
women's writing to know it's no good
Elise G. Young
Dale Spender
The Knowledge Explosion:
Feminist Perspectives on Peace and
Generations of Feminist Scholarship
Peace Education
Cheris Kramarae and Dale Spender
Birgit Brock-Utne
Editors '
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GENERATIONS OF FEMINIST SCHOLARSHIP
Edited by
CHERIS KRAMARAE
and
DALE SPENDER
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TEACHERS COLLEGE PRESS
Teachers College, Columbia University
New York and London
Published by Teachers College Press, 1234 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, New York
Copyright © I 992 by Cheris Kramarae and Dale Spender
Chapter 11 Copyright © 1992 by H. Patricia Hynes
Chapter 35 Copyright © I 992 by Renate Klein
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmiued in any form or by
any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopy, or any information storage and retrieval
system, without permission from the publisher.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The Knowledge explosion : generations of feminist scholarship / edited
by Cheris Kramarae and Dale Spender. - 1st ed.
p. em. - (The Athene series)
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN 0-8077-6258-X (alk. paper}--ISBN 0-8077-6257-1 (pbk.; alk. paper).
1. Women scholars-United States. 2. Women's studies-United
States. 3. Feminism-United States. I. Kramarae, Cheris.
II. Spender, Dale. III. Series.
HQ1397.K63 1992
305.42'0973-'c20 91-1~334
Printed on acid-free paper
Manufactured in the United States of America
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