The Sex of Knowing (Hardcover)

Introduction 1.Cast-Offs 1.1 How Intuition Came to Women 1.2 Woman as an Object of Discourse: An Inquiry Into Categories 1.3 Values/Countervalues 1.4 Knowledge and Power 1.5 Anti-Intellectualism 1.6 Essays on Original Sin 1.7 A Knowing Subject in Process 1.8 Coherences 1.9 Divine Plato? 1.10 Eve's Awakening/Apollo's Ruling: Two Banquets Juxtaposed 2. Renaissances 2.1 The Intermittent Existence of Women Doctors 2.2 A Cognitive Norm 2.3 Knowing by Dreaming? Object Versus Objectification 2.4 Construction of an Object or Definition of a Field? 2.5 Lady Trotula 2.6 Being as One is Perceived 2.7 Legal Counsel on Strike 2.8 Verum Index Sui 2.9 Interlude 2.10 Masculine Foreclosures of Knowledge 2.11 Epikleroi 2.12 Three Headscarves 2.13 The Jailer's Catechism 2.14 A Little Learning 2.15 The Judgement of Christine 3. An Epistemology of Hope 3.1 Take An Aspirin 3.2 An Offensive Philosophy, but to Whom? 3.3 Sciences, Humanities, and Philosophy 3.4 Finalities 3.5 The Alchemy of the Word 3.6 Phallomelancholia or Gay Science? 3.7 Duplicities 3.8 Neutrality 3.9 Factual Violence/Ideational Violence 3.10 Visions 3.11 The Liberal Experience 3.12 Saint Scholastica 3.13 A Woman and a Man in Philosophy 3.14 The Admirable Essay 3.15 Equality, Difference, or Divergence? 3.16 Corporations Epilogue Notes Index