gendered knowledge as a challenge to our epistemological paradigm
Subsequent Statement of Responsibility
Lennon, Kathleen
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
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University of Hull
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
2000
DISSERTATION (THESIS) NOTE
Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree
Thesis (Ph.D.)
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2000
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Feminist epistemology has two aims: to show the androcentrism present in certain paradigmatic accounts of what counts as good knowledge and to provide us with alternatives. In this thesis I will follow that tradition and I will argue for a new epistemological paradigm that avoids androcentrism and revises our concept of knowledge. I will support a theory grounded in feminist standpoint epistemology, but with influences of feminist empiricism and postmodernism.