The Material of Knowledge: Feminist Disclosures

Susan Hekman believes we are witnessing an intellectual sea change. The
main features of this change are found in dichotomies between language and reality,
discourse and materiality. Hekman proposes that it is possible to find a more
intimate connection between these pairs, one that does not privilege one over the
other. By grounding her work in feminist thought and employing analytic philosophy,
scientific theory, and linguistic theory, Hekman shows how language and reality can
be understood as an indissoluble unit. In this broadly synthetic work, she offers a
new interpretation of questions of science, modernism, postmodernism, and feminism
so as to build knowledge of reality and extend how we deal with nature and our
increasingly diverse experiences of it.