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Dualisms, Discourse, and Development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Drucilla K. Barker
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Abstract

This essay reviews a body of literature on feminism, development, and knowledge construction. This literature rejects essentialist constructions of women, challenges the universality of the Western scientific method, and creates a discursive space for reconstructing the dualisms embedded in the modem worldview. It suggests that an understanding of knowledge systems other than the modem one can aid us in constructing epistemologies that result in less dominating ways of producing knowledge.

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Hypatia , Volume 13 , Issue 3: Special Issue: Border Crossings: Multiculturalism and Postcolonial Challenges, Part 2 , Summer 1998 , pp. 83 - 94
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Copyright © 1998 by Hypatia, Inc.

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