基本説明
Develops an original approach which draws on the work of an array of contemporary theorists - Weber, Gadamer and Wittgenstein - to formulate a new feminist methodology for the social science.
Full Description
This key work addresses one of the most central and controversial issues in contemporary feminist theory: the problem of difference.
Contents
1. The Problem of Difference. The Other.
From erasure to emphasis.
From difference to differences.
The future of differences.
2. From Difference to Differences: The Case of Feminist Standpoint Theory.
Defining the feminist standpoint.
The challenge of difference: redefining the feminist standpoint.
Toward a new paradigm.
3. A Method for Differences.
Feminism, method and difference.
Weber's ideal type.
Feminist ideal types.
Conclusion.
4. The Epistemology of Moral Voice: Displacing Hegemony in Moral/Legal Discourse. .
Different moral voices. Different legal voices.
A new legal game.
An alternative moral epistemology: multiple voices.
5. Backgrounds and Riverbeds: Feminist Reflections.
Theories of the Background.
Subverting the Background.
Shifting the riverbed.
Conclusion.
Notes.
References.
Index.
