Knowledges/foci -- Northern India and its cultures -- Dravidian India and its cultures -- Bangladesh and Islam -- Nepal and the Himalayan societies -- Mexico and the mestizaje -- Guatemala and the indigenous -- Chicana/os -- The African diaspora in the United States -- Retrievals/outcomes
Summary
Jane Duran's Worlds of Knowing begins to fill an enormous gap in the literature of feminist epistemology: a wide-ranging, cross-cultural primer on worldviews and epistemologies of various cultures and their appropriations by indigenous feminist movements in those cultures. It is the much needed epistemological counterpart to work on cross-cultural feminist social and political philosophy. This project is absolutely breath-taking in scope, yet a manageable read for anyone with some background in feminist theory, history, or anthropology. Duran draws many comparisons and connections to Wester
