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An introduction to feminist epistemologies

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  title={An introduction to feminist epistemologies},
  author={Alessandra Tanesini},
  year={1999},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:143413763}
}
  • A. Tanesini
  • Published 26 January 1999
  • Philosophy, Sociology
Could gender, race, and sexuality be relevant to knowledge? 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. This book presents a comprehensive introduction to feminist epistemologies situated at the intersection of philosophical, sociological, and cultural investigations of knowledge. It provides several critiques of more traditional… 
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