POLS 5770 Feminist Epistemology

POLS 5770 Feminist Epistemology

POLS 5770 Feminist Epistemology

Introductions to one another and to feminist epistemology
 Donna Kate Rushin, “The Bridge Poem”
 Marge Piercy, “Unlearning to Not Speak”
 “A body of knowledge” exercise

The Tales We Tell: Knowledge, Culture, Curiosity, Re-Interpretation, etc

 Cynthia Enloe, “Being Curious about Our Lack of Feminist Curiosity.” The Curious Feminist: Searching for Women in a New Age of Empire (U. of California, 2004): 1-10.

The Epistemology and Politics of Ignorance

 Dale Spender, “Why Didn’t I Know” Women of Ideas (London: Pandora Press, 1982): 2-16.
 Penny Weiss, “The Politics of Ignorance: Christine de Pizan.” Canon Fodder: Historical Women Political Thinkers (Penn State U. Press, 2009): 30-55.

The Epistemology and Politics of Ignorance
 Charles Mills, “White Ignorance

Some history of feminist epistemology
 Christine de Pizan (1405), The Book of the City of Ladies (NY: Persea Books, 1982): 3-32 & 62-97.

Credibility and Authoritative Knowledge
 Catherine Kingfisher and Ann Millard, “’Milk Makes Me Sick but My Body Needs It’: Conflict and Contradiction in the Establishment of Authoritative Knowledge.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly 12, 4 (December 1998): 447-466.