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Confessing Feminist Theory: What's “I” Got to Do with It?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Susan David Bernstein
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Abstract

Confessional modes of self-representation have become crucial in feminist epistemologies that broaden and contextualize the location and production of knowledge. In some versions of confessional feminism, the insertion of “I” is reflective, the product of an uncomplicated notion of experience that shuttles into academic discourse apersonal truth. In contrast to reflective intrusions of the first person, reflexive confessing is primarily a questioning mode that imposes self-vigilance on the process of self positioning.

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Hypatia , Volume 7 , Issue 2: Special Issue: Philosophy and Language , Spring 1992 , pp. 120 - 147
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Copyright © 1992 by Hypatia, Inc.

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