Women's Experience, Women's Knowledge and the Power of Knowledge: An Illustration and an Elaboration
Abstract
Within the framework of women's contribution to knowledge creation, this paper presents data on two linked research projects. In the first instance, women's contribution to a prestigious knowledge area is examined and their relegation to peripheral roles is emphasized; in the second, women's participation in a secondary knowledge area is outlined and the mechanisms for the continuing containment of the whole knowledge area are highlighted. The paper concludes with comments on the importance not only of women's relative absence from knowledge creation, but also of the mechanisms through which woman-created knowledge is contained and denigrated.Metrics
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