Transforming Knowledge - Hardcover

Minnich, Elizabeth

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ISBN 10: 0877226954 ISBN 13: 9780877226956

Publisher: Temple University Press, 1990

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Examining the heritage and errors of a scholastic tradition that considered the Euro-American male the norm and ideal for humankind

Ninth Annual Frederic W. Ness Book Award, Association of American Colleges

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"[A]n honest, personal, and compelling account of contemporary efforts to transform the curriculum to include gender, race, and class."
—Elizabeth Higginbotham

"A valuable addition to the current critique of the 'canon' in academia."
—Reginald Wilson

"A brilliant book which feminists will find exceedingly useful in our daily struggle with traditionalists, and as a tool for the freeing of our own minds."
—Gerda Lerner, Women's Review of Books

"The great value of this work is the striving for critical synthesis that it presents. Minnich is drawing upon and drawing together threads of criticism spun by writers of many views and disciplines. Her book is rather like Hume's handbook of philosophical fallacies, except that 'false universalization' (one of Hume's fallacies, too) is here shown to be false on grounds that Hume never dreamt of."
—Elisabeth Young-Bruehl, Wesleyan University, and author of Anna Freud: A Biography

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