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The Quest For Certainty In Feminist Thought

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Ann Clark
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Abstract

In this paper I argue that the essentialism/antiessentialism debate among feminists is a variety of the idealist/realist split that Dewey addressed in The Quest for Certainty. I attempt to use Dewey's thought to subvert this opposition so that we can remove the feminist discussion from the structure of an idealist/realist either/or.

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Hypatia , Volume 8 , Issue 3 , Summer 1993, pp. 84 - 93
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Copyright © 1993 by Hypatia, Inc.

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