Worlds of Knowing

<p>Jane Duran's Worlds of Knowing begins to fill an enormous gap in the literature of feminist epistemology: a wide-ranging cross-cultural primer on worldviews and epistemologies of various cultures and their appropriations by indigenous feminist movements in those cultures. It is the much needed epistemological counterpart to work on cross-cultural feminist social and political philosophy. This project is absolutely breath-taking in scope yet a manageable read for anyone with some background in feminist theory history or anthropology. Duran draws many comparisons and connections to Western philosophical and feminist ideas yet avoids facile or imperialistic over-universalization. Her book is powerful comprehensive Pnd brave. It will prove an enormously useful resource for scholars in women's studies philosophy anthropology religious studies and history.</p>