ABSTRACT
As we have seen in the previous chapter, postmodern and feminist theorists have recently explored the “situated” (or perhaps more appropriately stated, the “unsituated”) body. The disembodied discourse of epistemological objectivity and neutral judgement has been referred to as “the view from nowhere.” It has prompted such questions as: Whose Truth? Whose nature? Whose version of reason? Whose history? Whose tradition? (Bordo, 1990). These critiques of abstract theorizing stand against the ideal of disembodied knowledge and hold out significant possibilities for extending the meaning and value of feminist and critically-oriented pedagogy.
