Članek tematizira začetek in razvoj ženskih študij na Slovenskem in diskontinuitete v kolek-tivnem spominu na žensko gibanje. V tem oziru prikaže razvoj medvojnih ženskih društev in založb ter ...začetke univerzitetnega raziskovanja »ženskih tem«, premike, ki sta jih povzroči-la druga svetovna vojna in vzpostavljanje socialistične oblasti. Novi režim si je prizadeval za uveljavitev enakosti med spoloma, ni bil pa pripravljen ločeno obravnavati položaja žensk, njihove vloge v družini in v družbi. Kljub pomembnim spremembam je socialistična oblast ohranila patriarhalno logiko, ki se je obnovila tudi po letu 1991. Novi val feminističnega gibanja na Slovenskem je v devetdesetih letih organiziral številne nevladne organizacije in druge feministične iniciative, ki pa so po letu 2005 pojenjale. V zaključnem delu članka avtorici tematizirata umeščanje zgodovine žensk v slovensko historiografijo in ugotavljata pomen institucionalizacije ženskih študij in študij spola v akademskem okolju.
Conventional wisdom has it that the sciences, properly pursued, constitute a pure, value-free method of obtaining knowledge about the natural world. In light of the social and normative dimensions of ...many scientific debates, Helen Longino finds that general accounts of scientific methodology cannot support this common belief. Focusing on the notion of evidence, the author argues that a methodology powerful enough to account for theories of any scope and depth is incapable of ruling out the influence of social and cultural values in the very structuring of knowledge. The objectivity of scientific inquiry can nevertheless be maintained, she proposes, by understanding scientific inquiry as a social rather than an individual process. Seeking to open a dialogue between methodologists and social critics of the sciences, Longino develops this concept of contextual empiricism in an analysis of research programs that have drawn criticism from feminists. Examining theories of human evolution and of prenatal hormonal determination of gender-role behavior, of sex differences in cognition, and of sexual orientation, the author shows how assumptions laden with social values affect the description, presentation, and interpretation of data. In particular, Longino argues that research on the hormonal basis of sex-differentiated behavior involves assumptions not only about gender relations but also about human action and agency. She concludes with a discussion of the relation between science, values, and ideology, based on the work of Habermas, Foucault, Keller, and Haraway.
This book contains 14 essays exploring how the theory of women's psychology, development, and ways of knowing has developed during the past decade. The following essays are included: "The Beginning ...of the Story: Collaboration and Separation" (Nancy Rule Goldberger); "Looking Backward, Looking Forward" (Nancy Rule Goldberger); "Reconfiguring Teaching and Knowing in the College Classroom" (Ann Stanton); "Women's Ways of 'Knowing' Law: Feminist Legal Epistemology, Pedagogy, and Jurisprudence" (Carrie Menkel-Meadow); "Embodying Knowledge, Knowing Desire: Authority and Split Subjectivities in Girls' Epistemological Development" (Elizabeth Debold, Deborah Tolman, Lyn Mikel Brown); "Connected Knowing in Constructive Psychotherapy" (Michael J. Mahoney); "Women's Ways of Knowing in Women's Studies, Feminist Pedagogies, and Feminist Theory" (Frances A Maher, Mary Kay Tetreault); "Unknown Women and Unknowing Research: Consequences of Color and Class in Feminist Psychology" (Vanessa M. Bing, Pamela Trotman Reid); "Connected and Separate Knowing: Toward a Marriage of Two Minds" (Blythe McVicker Clinchy); "Reason's 'Femininity': A Case for Connected Knowing" (Sara Ruddick); "Voices in Dialogue: Collaborative Ways of Knowing" (Jill Mattuck Tarule); "Speech Is Silver, Silence Is Gold: The Asymmetrical Intersubjectivity of Communicative Action" (Patrocinio P. Schweickart); "Cultural Imperatives and Diversity in Ways of Knowing" (Nancy Rule Goldberger); "Strategic Suspensions: Feminists of Color Theorize the Production of Knowledge" (Aida Hurtado); "Public Homeplaces: Nurturing the Development of People, Families, and Communities" (Mary Field Belenky); and "Gendered Ways of Knowing and the 'Epistemological Crisis' of the West" (Sandra Harding). Most essays include substantial bibliographies. (MN)
