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  2. Feminist philosophy of science - Wikipedia

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    Feminist philosophy of science is a branch of feminist philosophy that seeks to understand how the acquirement of knowledge through scientific means has been influenced by notions of gender identity and gender roles in society. Feminist philosophers of science question how scientific research and scientific knowledge itself may be influenced ...

  3. Feminist science and technology studies - Wikipedia

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    Building upon prior research from two decades of feminist STS literature, studies adopted principles based on updated frameworks at the turn of the millennium, such as Ellen van Oost's research into how gender becomes configured into electric shavers, [11] Ruth Schwartz Cowan's study on technological innovation increasing women's labor, [12] and Jennifer R. Fishman's exploration of ...

  4. Feminist epistemology - Wikipedia

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    Science has ignored women and gender, and how turning attention to these issues may require revisions of accepted theories. Biases toward working with "masculine" cognitive styles [ clarification needed ] (and in some cases even the words related to them) that may — through limiting, partial, or incomplete perspective — lead to errors of ...

  5. Sandra Harding - Wikipedia

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    Sandra G. Harding (born 1935) is an American philosopher of feminist and postcolonial theory, epistemology, research methodology, and philosophy of science.She directed the UCLA Center for the Study of Women from 1996 to 2000, and co-edited Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society from 2000 to 2005.

  6. Feminist technoscience - Wikipedia

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    Feminist technoscience is a transdisciplinary branch of science studies which emerged from decades of feminist critique on the way gender and other identity markers are entangled in the combined fields of science and technology. [1]

  7. Feminist philosophy - Wikipedia

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    Feminist philosophy is an approach to philosophy from a feminist perspective and also the employment of philosophical methods to feminist topics and questions. [1] Feminist philosophy involves both reinterpreting philosophical texts and methods in order to supplement the feminist movement and attempts to criticise or re-evaluate the ideas of traditional philosophy from within a feminist framework.

  8. Women in philosophy - Wikipedia

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    Minorities and Philosophy (MAP), the American Philosophical Association, and the Society for Women in Philosophy are all organizations trying to fix the gender imbalance in academic philosophy. In the early 1800s, some colleges and universities in the UK and US began admitting women , producing more female academics.

  9. Gender studies - Wikipedia

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    Gender studies is an interdisciplinary academic field devoted to analysing gender identity and gendered representation. Gender studies originated in the field of women's studies, concerning women, feminism, gender, and politics. [1] [2] The field now overlaps with queer studies and men's studies.