Womens Ways Of Knowing - Hardcover

Belenky, Mary Field

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9780465092123: Womens Ways Of Knowing

Synopsis

Despite the progress of the womenâ s movement, many women still feel silenced in their families and schools. This moving and insightful bestseller, based on in-depth interviews with 135 women, explains why they feel this way. Updated with a new preface exploring how the authorsâ collaboration and research developed, this tenth anniversary edition addresses many of the questions that the authors have been asked repeatedly in the years since Womenâ s Ways of Knowing was originally published.

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From interviews with 135 women (mostly privileged college students) regarding their search for truth and knowledge, the authors (all female faculty members of colleges or universities) determine five learning "perspectives" that characterize "women's way of knowing." The somewhat philosophical text, which skillfully blends narration, documentation, and excerpts from interviews, sees higher education's teaching methods as more responsive to male "impersonalness" than female "connectedness" and recommends ways to improve the situation. On the whole, a work ironically geared more to the dialectician or feminist scholar than to the "integrated constructivist" or "passionate knower." For large public and academic libraries. Janice Arenofsky, formerly with Arizona State Lib., Phoenix
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9780465090990: Women's Ways of Knowing (10th Anniversary Edition): The Development of Self, Voice, and Mind

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ISBN 10:  0465090990 ISBN 13:  9780465090990
Publisher: Basic Books, 1997
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