"Feminist scholarship can, at its best, represent a daring set of challenges to existing practices in every intellectual endeavor. This collection of essays sets out to demonstrate these capacities and opportunities. In statements that are at once personal, professional, and political, scholars and writers from diverse academic fields reveal commonalities among their fields and explore a number of important themes including the nature of subject-object relations, perspectivism, patriarchal systems, value embeddedness, and the political consequences of theory. Contributors from America offer views from the fields of anthropology, biology, and psychology and contributors from Britain, the Netherlands, and France provide valuable European perspectives on how a feminist awareness can both question and challenge existing methodologies. The authors stress the need to abandon objectivity, to view reality as "socially constructed," to do scholarly work in "ways that rely on power, domination and right, and more on open dialogue, imbued with expression of values and feelings, and with reflexivity.""--back cover.