Naomi Scheman is a Professor of Philosophy and Gender, Women's and Sexuality Studies at the University of Minnesota.
[3] Scheman is especially interested in the ways in which transgressive practices shine light on the actions of normatively centered people, and on how insights gleaned from these observations allow for the chance of acting differently.
[3] Scheman has written four books: Engenderings: Constructions of Knowledge, Authority, and Privilege in 1993,[4] Is Academic Feminism Dead?
in 2000,[5] Feminist Interpretations of Wittgenstein in 2002,[6] and most recently Shifting Ground: Knowledge & Reality, Transgression & Trust in 2011.
[2] In Engenderings: Constructions of Knowledge, Authority, and Privilege,[4] Scheman critiques aspects of modern philosophy that serve or reinforce injustice.