| A certain book came out and it tackled the way that | | | | have the capability to think. |
| women acquire knowledge. This book is a product of | | | | On the other hand, subjective knowledge is the way |
| an al woman team of surveyors/ researchers who | | | | of knowing wherein women have acknowledged their |
| focused on the way that women think or acquire | | | | sense of worth and they are aware of their brain. |
| learning and knowledge. The book is called A | | | | The development of self, voice and mind is apparent |
| Women's Ways of Knowing. The researchers | | | | here. The women separate themselves from their |
| interviewed 135 women about their gender, | | | | sense of obligation to follow and obey other people's |
| relationships with other people, their ways of | | | | ideas and opinions. These women have learned to |
| accepting or acquiring knowledge and their various | | | | value and respect their own voice. But despite finding |
| moral dilemmas. As we learn about these, improve | | | | their voice, they are oftentimes too rooted in the |
| our chances for development of self, voice and mind. | | | | feeling of insubordination that they cannot and will |
| These interviews yielded five ways of knowing. | | | | not try to rock the boat just for the sake of voicing |
| These ways of knowing delve into how women | | | | an opinion. The women have difficulty-seeing things |
| perceive themselves and how they approach the | | | | the other way even if the other way makes sense. |
| world at large. It was gleaned from the in-depth | | | | Te feeling of self-doubt is very strong and the |
| interviews that the way women think regarding | | | | interviewees are not so confident in stating their |
| education and knowledge affect self-perception and | | | | ideas. |
| self-perception also affects the way we acquire | | | | In this way of knowing, the women have their |
| knowledge. | | | | voices of reason. There are two kinds of Procedural |
| One of the ways of knowing or acquiring knowledge | | | | Knowledge, the connected knowing and the |
| is silence. In silence, one perceives the authority | | | | separated knowing. The connected version is |
| figure as the ultimate source of learning and | | | | described as where women delve into a certain |
| knowledge. This type of learning or way of learning | | | | source or author or theory and they dissect it with |
| encourages blind obedience to authority figures. | | | | gusto. This way of knowing is non-confrontational |
| According to philosophers, the women do not even | | | | and very enjoyable to most women. They share |
| question or try to analyze the why and how of the | | | | their ideas and opinions without any conflict and they |
| information imparted by the authority figure, they | | | | also get to know each other through this way. Te |
| just accept it as the truth. Incases like these, the | | | | idea or theory or author is well chewed out and |
| women perceive themselves in stereotypes which | | | | discussed in any way which satisfies the women in |
| are lower than authority figures. Again, according to | | | | the forum without any debate. This way of knowing |
| philosophers, they have difficulty defining themselves | | | | is in a way, gossiping which can be very enjoyable to |
| as individual thinkers and thus they accept what is | | | | some of the women. |
| feed to them without any resistance for fear of | | | | The separated version relies more on objectivity. |
| rejection or conflict. | | | | There is a sort of confrontational attitude towards |
| The next way of knowing is received knowledge. In | | | | other people with other opinions, which may not |
| this way of knowing, some of the interviewed | | | | conform to theirs. The discussion could turn heated |
| women listen to the views and opinions of other | | | | and may end up in a debate among the people |
| people. These women have difficulty forming their | | | | sharing or expressing their opinions. Constructed |
| own ideas and opinions. The have self doubt | | | | knowledge is the last way of knowing. Here women |
| regarding their capabilities and even if they want to | | | | integrate their own voices and their own sense of |
| ask or doubt anything, their self-doubt is palpable and | | | | self with reason. They accept that subjectivity and |
| brings them down. It is the same as the way of | | | | objectivity are essential elements in knowledge. For |
| knowing stated above, they also have this idea that | | | | the knowledge to be gained these two must be |
| authority figures are sources of facts and truth. | | | | conquered and made to work for the acquiring of |
| They do not even seem to acknowledge that they | | | | knowledge. |