Lorraine Code “Persons and Others”

Lorraine Code “Persons and Others”

The central thesis of Code is that the knower's sex is epistemologically important. In traditional epistemology, the knower is understood to be interchangeable and irrelevant, a mere medium for getting knowledge. Code debates that who knows is as significant as what is known, and that who and what exist in an equally vibrant association (Shulman, 1987).

Conventional epistemology masks associations of power which shape and generate knowledge, and grasps that who is doing the meaningful is not pertinent. Code observes that in actual fact the fair-minded, objective knower is a very meticulous, particular, concerned ...