An Introduction to Feminist Epistemologies

Although their positions and arguments differ in several respects, feminists have asserted that science, knowledge, and rationality cannot be severed from their social, political, and cultural aspects.

Alessandra Tanesini is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Wales, Cardiff. She has been a Visiting Senior Lecturer at the University of Sydney, and a Visiting Assistant Professor at Georgetown University. She is the author of several articles on Nietzsche, feminist philosophy, and epistemology, and is currently working on a book on Wittgenstein and feminism.

Varieties of Epistemology
Epistemology
The Study of Scientific Knowledge
Philosophy of Science
The Sociology of Knowledge
The Cultural Study of Scientific Knowledge
Feminism and "Mainstream" Epistemology
Feminist Criticisms of Individualism in Epistemology
Feminist Objections to the Traditional Epistemic Subject
Feminism and Science
Sexist Science
Science and Values
Feminist Empiricism
Contextual Empiricism
Naturalised Empiricism
The Limits of Empiricism
Naturalised feminist Epistemology
Feminism and Naturalised Epistemology
Sociology and Naturalised Epistemology
The Importance of Standpoint in Feminism
What is a Standpoint: Beginning from Women's Experience
Starting from Marginal Lives
Objectivity and Feminism
What is Objectivity?
Objectivity and Objectification. Objectivity, Values, and Responsibility
Knowledge and Power
Power, Knowledge, and Human Interests
Disciplinary Power, Bio-Power, and Science
Reason and Unreason in feminism
Reason and masculinity
Reason and the Philosophical Imaginary
Feminism and Postmodernism
Epistemology: Rejection or Transformation?
Knowledge and the Subject
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An Introduction to Feminist Epistemologies

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