Crossing Boundaries : Feminisms and the Critique of Knowledges (Hardcover)

Preface Part 1. Women and the sciences? Introduction Marie de Lepervanche? 1. Feminism and science? E.A. Grosz and Marie de Lepervanche? 2. Mathematics: a barrier for women? Mary Barnes? 3. Biology, the popular weapon: sex differences in cognitive function Lesly Rogers? Part 2: Women and the humanities? Introduction E.A. Grosz? 4. Towards a feminist philosophy of the body Moira Gatens? 5. Polyandry, ‘pollution’, ‘prostitution’. The problems of eurocentrism and androcentrism in Polynesian studies Caroline Ralston? 6. Feminist readings: the case of Christina Stead Susan Sheridan? 7. The in(ter)vention of feminist knowledges E.A. Grosz? Part 3: Women in Australia? Introduction Marie de Lepervanche? 8. The feminisation of poverty Bettina Cass ?9. Equal pay, a family wage, or both? Ann Curthoys? Part 4: Feminisms, feminist and forgotten women? Introduction Barbara Caine? 10. Pre­?World War I socialist feminism in Germany: homo economicus Carole E. Adams? 11. Rose Scott’s vision: feminism and masculinity, 1880?1925 Judith Allen? 12. Millicent Garrett Fawcett: a Victorian liberal feminist? Barbara Caine? 13. Aileen Palmer’s second coming of age Judith Keene