Love and knowledge: Emotion in feminist epistemology
1989/01/01 by Alison M. Jaggar · 28 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Emotions and Moral Behavior #Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies #Rhetoric and Communication Studies
paper · doi:10.1080/00201748908602185
Abstract
This paper argues that, by construing emotion as epistemologically subversive, the Western tradition has tended to obscure the vital role of emotion in the construction of knowledge. The paper begins with an account of emotion that stresses its active, voluntary, and socially constructed aspects, and indicates how emotion is involved in evaluation and observation. It then moves on to show how the myth of dispassionate investigation has functioned historically to undermine the epistemic authority of women as well as other social groups associated culturally with emotion. Finally, the paper sketches some ways in which the emotions of underclass groups, especially women, may contribute to the development of a critical social theory.
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