Academic Pathfinders: Knowledge Creation and Feminist Scholarship
From the 1960s to the 1980s, a range of academic possibilities for women developed, as their career histories and intellectual biographies reveal. Some women sought to generate a new knowledge specialty in their disciplines, often explicitly defying admonishments that the subject matter was an oxymoron. Others pursued academic paths that disregarded these new opportunities and developments. Together their accounts portray how feminist scholarship emerged and was facilitated by historically...
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Advances understanding of the dynamics of knowledge creation and the struggle for legitimacy that may accompany new scholarly ideas, such as feminist studies. Booknews Gumport (education, Stanford U.), in this revision of her dissertation, reconstructs the careers of 35 academics who were involved in the creation of feminist scholarship in their fields. The nature of academic knowledge and the social science theories and research methods used for the study are described in initial chapters. The intellectual biographies and career histories of the academics interviewed, lamentably called "Pathfinders," follow. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
Series ForewordPrefaceIntroductionCh. 1The Dynamic Nature of Academic Knowledge1Ch. 2Academic Feminism: Antecedents, Initiatives, and Unresolved Issues31Ch. 3Investigating Knowledge Creation53Ch. 4The Pathfinders' Breakthroughs61Ch. 5Knowledge Creation in the Disciplines: History, Sociology, and Philosophy99Ch. 6Alternative Academic Pursuits: The Pathtakers and Forerunners131Ch. 7Changing Conditions for Knowledge Creation153App.: Notes on the Research Design and Methods165Bibliography179Index193
\ BooknewsGumport (education, Stanford U.), in this revision of her dissertation, reconstructs the careers of 35 academics who were involved in the creation of feminist scholarship in their fields. The nature of academic knowledge and the social science theories and research methods used for the study are described in initial chapters. The intellectual biographies and career histories of the academics interviewed, lamentably called "Pathfinders," follow. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)\ \
