What Can She Know?: Feminist Theory and the Construction of Knowledge

376 Pages·1991·15.942 MB·English

by  Lorraine Code

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What Can She Know?
Feminist Theory and the
Construction of Knowledge
Lorraine Code
Cornell University Press
Ithaca and London
Copyright © 1991 by Cornell University
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First published 1991 by Cornell University Press.
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For Jacqueline, David, ant/ Jonathan Code
for what I have learned from them
All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical,
combine in the three following questions:
1. What can I know?
2. What ought I to do?
3. What may I hope?
The first question is merely speculative. We have, as I flatter
myself, exhausted all the possible answers to it, and at last have
found the answer with which reason must perforce content itself,
and with which, so long as it takes no account of the practical, it
has also good cause to be satisfied.
—Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason