Feminist Science Fiction and Feminist Epistemology

Ritch Calvin

Springer International Publishing AG, 2016

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This book argues that feminist science fiction shares the same concerns as feminist epistemology—challenges to the sex of the knower, the valuation of the abstract over the concrete, the dismissal of the physical, the focus on rationality and reason, the devaluation of embodied knowledge, and the containment of (some) bodies.

ISBN-13
9783319324692
ISBN-10
3319324691
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG
Year
2016
Publication date
2016-09-27
Pages
304
Dimensions
160x216x24
Weight
518