Gender, Theory, and the Canon
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Author | : James A. Winders |
Publisher | : Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 1991 |
ISBN-10 | : UVA:X001982466 |
ISBN-13 | : |
Rating | : 4/5 (66 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis Gender, Theory, and the Canon by : James A. Winders
Book excerpt: A re-reading of five texts canonical to modern European intellectual history focusing on gender issues. He shows how values central to our cultural inheritance - truth, reason, the self, work, pleasure, desire - have been constructed by a predominantly white male intellectual tradition.