Deborah Knowles
Biographic Data
| ID | 6588683 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deborah Knowles |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deborah |
| FAMILY NAME | Knowles |
| SIGNATURE | KNOWLES D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bristol |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Performance and Performativity
This article explores the representation of women small business owners in three contemporary novels; Chocolat , The Shipping News and Back When We Were Grownups . The primary contribution is to demonstrate how fiction can both challenge and collude in dominant constructions of entrepreneurship, which is more generally gendered as male and masculine. Judith Butler's thinking on performativity with regard to gender and sexual desire is applied to …
Asphodel Long
This article charts Asphodel's development in political and theological terms, from her dialectic with her political roots, through the maelstrom of 1970s socialism and feminism. Asphodel's clearsightedness recognized and challenged sexism in left-wing politics as well as in religion. She also challenged the scientific ideal of objectivity by recovering subjectivity as a source of knowledge. For the present day, Asphodel provides the same clearsi…
Is Kant's Concept of Reason Compromised by Misogyny and if so Can it be Retrieved
In this essay I examine the concept of reason bequeathed to us by Kant. I draw upon the work of a number of feminist philosophers who have broken new ground in Kantian scholarship. I seek to build upon their work by forging connections with material that although disparate I believe to be ultimately complementary. I track the development of Kant's thought through two texts: Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime 1764 and Critiqu…
Performance and Performativity
This article explores the representation of women small business owners in three contemporary novels; Chocolat , The Shipping News and Back When We Were Grownups . The primary contribution is to demonstrate how fiction can both challenge and collude in dominant constructions of entrepreneurship, which is more generally gendered as male and masculine. Judith Butler's thinking on performativity with regard to gender and sexual desire is applied to …
Asphodel Long
This article charts Asphodel's development in political and theological terms, from her dialectic with her political roots, through the maelstrom of 1970s socialism and feminism. Asphodel's clearsightedness recognized and challenged sexism in left-wing politics as well as in religion. She also challenged the scientific ideal of objectivity by recovering subjectivity as a source of knowledge. For the present day, Asphodel provides the same clearsi…
Is Kant's Concept of Reason Compromised by Misogyny and if so Can it be Retrieved
In this essay I examine the concept of reason bequeathed to us by Kant. I draw upon the work of a number of feminist philosophers who have broken new ground in Kantian scholarship. I seek to build upon their work by forging connections with material that although disparate I believe to be ultimately complementary. I track the development of Kant's thought through two texts: Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime 1764 and Critiqu…
Performance and Performativity
This article explores the representation of women small business owners in three contemporary novels; Chocolat , The Shipping News and Back When We Were Grownups . The primary contribution is to demonstrate how fiction can both challenge and collude in dominant constructions of entrepreneurship, which is more generally gendered as male and masculine. Judith Butler's thinking on performativity with regard to gender and sexual desire is applied to …
Aesthetics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Politics (2 works) · African cultural and philosophical studies (1 work) · Allegiance (1 work)