Mudrost tijela, moć prirode — valorizacija utišanih autoriteta
The wisdom of body, the power of nature

Author(s): Jana Ažić
Subject(s): Gender Studies, Epistemology
Published by: Durieux
Keywords: domination; nature; science; authority; epistemology; patriarchy; Mary Belenky; Blythe Clinchy McVicker; Nancy Goldberger; Jill Tarule; Women’s Ways of Knowing; Christiane Northrup;
Summary/Abstract: The paper seeks to rethink essentialist ecofeminism in the relation of women and nature in contrast to the exploitative patriarchal science. Drawing parallel to body and nature, the paper discusses the idea of inner change and acceptance of the body wisdom, resulting in wider changes. The patriarchal power has controlled and appointed the truths of androcentric history. In addition to the classic dualistic position, the paper offers the idea of a so–called androgyne epistemology, which therefore implies questioning the previous methods of knowledge. The papper questions the autarchy of external authority simultaneously questioning the value of the inner voice as a form of the specifically female epistemology. How has it been silenced? Should it be respected within the existing value–objective systems?

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