Knowing Feminisms looks at feminism as a vital source of new knowledge and new ways of working throughout a range of disciplines. It also scrutinizes the sometimes highly problematic forms its presence within academia can take. The contributors, all well-known feminist academics, discuss the epistemological and ontological ‘borderlands' that feminisms inhabit, which although within, still remain ‘other' to, the academy.
The book addresses fundamentally important questions such as: Should feminists work within traditional disciplines or abandon them in favour of Women's Studies? Is the idea of feminist pedagogy as ‘empowerment' actually one which de-skills? Does the feminist transformation of some academic disciplines