ABSTRACT
Thinking about such forms of knowledge raises questions about women and the act of knowing more generally. Thus a third group of readings asks, What kinds of knowing do women engage in? What kinds of authority are they able to claim for their knowledge? And what positions do they take toward the established authority of other forms of knowledge, whether embodied in laws or holy texts or social conventions? Such knowledge often assumes the form of so-called definitive information about women; thus a fourth and final group of readings revolves around women's constructions and reconstructions of knowledge about themselves.
