FROM EPISTEMOLOGY TO SPIRITUALITY: FEMINIST PERSPECTIVES
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Keywords:
EPISTEMOLOGY, SPIRITUALITY, FEMINISTAbstract
What does it mean to identify as a woman in Western societies on the eve of this new millennium? How do women understand and seek to enact their own gender identity? The question of 'femininity', of what it is to be a woman, is of course central to feminism, and it is feminism, more than anything else, that has wrought the transformations in feminine identity that have taken place over the last thirty years.
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