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Women's Studies and the Transformation of Knowledge

The emphasis of this page is on (from the syllabus for WS 692): "feminist thinking about 'situated knowledge,' . . . . How the situation of the knower--gender, race, geographical location, cultural history, for example--is related to the production and valuation of knowledge."

Significant names/authors | SAGE terms | Web Sites | Articles and Tables of Content on the Web | Indexes

Women and Women's Studies: Selected Resources

List of sources, print and Web, compiled by a CSU librarian. Rutgers University site is particularly excellent.

Useful key terms:

Feminist Epistemology (definition Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (this is extensive)) (bibliography) (readings 1 of 2 2 of 2, February 1996)

Significant Names/Authors

These are significant names associated with the above-mentioned areas of women's studies. Click on the last name for CSU book/book chapter holdings. Other hyperlinks are to Web pages with information about them. Some of the articles listed in the last section of this page are by some of these women.

SAGE terms:

Search these terms in SAGE to find books owned by CSU.

  • Feminism
  • Feminist Criticism.
  • Feminist Literary Criticism.
  • Feminist Theory
  • Knowledge, Sociology of

Web Sites

These sites are available on the Web. Be sure to evaluate what you use.

African American Feminism

Bibliography: What Makes Feminist Research Feminist?

Body Studies in Feminist Theory

Feminist Educational Research

Feminist Theory Website: Various Fields within Feminism.

Feminist Studies UCSB. (LibGuide)

Library Resources for Women's Studies

Syllabi on the Web for Women- and Gender-Related Courses

Women's Studies Resources--General. The University of York.

Women's Studies A Research Guide, NYPL

Women's Studies (diaries online)

Women's Studies Resources (U of Iowa)

  • Activism
  • Art
  • Communication and Media
  • Development - WID
  • Feminist Theory
  • General or Mixed, Indexes & Searches
  • History
  • Literature
  • Music
  • Sports

Women's Studies Internet Resources Listed By Type

WSSLINKS Women and Gender Studies Web Sites

Articles and Tables of Content on the Web

These articles are available on the free Web (as of 8 March 2002). Be sure to evaluate them!

Ausch, Robert, Randal Doane and Laura Perez. "Interview with Elizabeth Grosz." Center for Study of Culture, Technology, and Work (CUNY).

Bart, Jody. "Feminist Theories of Knowledge: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly." Sweet Briar College.

Caddick, Alison. "I'd Rather Be a Cyborg Than a Goddess: Avoiding Difficult Questions." Arena Magazine June-July 1998. BNET.

Code, Lorraine. What Can She Know? Feminist Theory and the Construction of Knowledge. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991. Detailed summary (brief analysis) of the book.

Collins Patricia Hill."Black Feminist Thought in the Matrix of Domination." From Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1990, pp. 221-238

Collins Patricia Hill. Fighting Words: Black Women and the Search for Justice. University Press PR for the book. Detailed overview of the book.

Collins Patricia Hill. "Guest Column: Teaching For Change." University of Cincinnati. February 4, 2000.

Dolores Delgado Bernal. "Using a Chicana Feminist Epistemology in Educational Research" Harvard Educational Review 68.4 (1998).

Grassie, William. "Cyborgs, Trickster, and Hermes: Donna Haraway's Metatheory of Science and Religion." Published in Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science, June 1996. CSU affiliates only can access.

Haraway, Donna. "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century," in Simians, Cyborgs and Women: The Reinvention of Nature (New York; Routledge, 1991), pp.149-181.

Hartsock, Nancy. The Feminist Standpoint Revisited and Other Essays. Colorado: Westview Press, 1998. Detailed book summary.

Kunzru, Hari "You Are Cyborg: For Donna Haraway, We Are Already Assimilated." Wired Archive | 5.02 - Feb 1997 | Feature

Mª Xosé Agra, Carme Adán. "Feminist Epistemology without Knowing Subject?"

The Monist Table of Contents Volume 77, Number 4 October 1994. Topic: Feminist Epistemology. CSU has volume: B1 .M6 v.77 1994 MOVABLE SHELVES

PR release for book award nomination for Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? by Sandra Harding.

Sheehan, Helena. "Critical Perspectives on Science: Lecture on Epistemological Crisis / Sociology of Knowledge." (thumbnails of multimedia slides) .

Steven P. Schacht. "The Promise of a Male Feminist Epistemology." ASA's Section on Sex and Gender Newsletter.

Sylvester, Christine. "Feminist Theory and Gender Studies in International Relations." Feminist Theory & Gender Studies, International Studies Association.

Vogel, Traci. "Push Anywhere: An Interview with Nancy Hartsock." The Stranger.com. Vol. 10 no. 28. Mar 29-Apr 4, 2001.

Young, Robert M. "Science, Ideology and Donna Haraway." Has bibliography.

Indexes--Identify Articles

Look in these indexes for citations to articles. Check SAGE to see if CSU owns the journal(s).

ArticleFirst 1990- via "Databases" page.

Communication Abstracts P 87 .C65  REF SOUTH (1978- )

Contemporary Women's Issues 1990- via "Databases" page. Full text online.

ERIC 1966- via "Databases" page. After selecting this ERIC, click on "Continue to Advanced Search." Check EJ title ownership in SAGE, CSU owns ED titles that are "available" on microfiche. Check for not available ED titles in SAGE--CSU owns a number of them.

 

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