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  {
    "id": "SWK7CBDE",
    "type": "chapter",
    "abstract": "Feminist epistemology and philosophy of science studies the ways inwhich gender does and ought to influence our conceptions of knowledge,knowers, and practices of inquiry and justification. It identifies howdominant conceptions and practices of knowledge attribution,acquisition, and justification disadvantage women and othersubordinated groups, and strives to reform them to serve the interestsof these groups. Various feminist epistemologists and philosophers ofscience argue that dominant knowledge practices disadvantage women by(1) excluding them from inquiry, (2) denying them epistemic authority,(3) denigrating “feminine” cognitive styles, (4) producingtheories of women that represent them as inferior, or significant onlyin the ways they serve male interests, (5) producing theories ofsocial phenomena that render women’s activities and interests,or gendered power relations, invisible, and (6) producing knowledgethat is not useful for people in subordinate positions, or thatreinforces gender and other social hierarchies. Feministepistemologists trace these failures to flawed conceptions ofknowledge, knowers, objectivity, and scientific methodology. Theyoffer diverse accounts of how to overcome these failures. They alsoaim to (1) explain why the entry of women and feminist scholars intodifferent academic disciplines has generated new questions, theories,methods, and findings, (2) show how gender and feminist values andperspectives have played a causal role in these transformations, (3)promote theories that aid egalitarian and liberation movements, and(4) defend these developments as epistemic advances. Readers who wishto delve more deeply into particular aspects of this subject can learnmore by consulting the entries on feminist social epistemology, feminist perspectives on science, and feminist perspectives on biology.",
    "container-title": "The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy",
    "edition": "Fall 2024",
    "publisher": "Metaphysics Research Lab, Stanford University",
    "source": "Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy",
    "title": "Feminist Epistemology and Philosophy of Science",
    "URL": "https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2024/entries/feminism-epistemology/",
    "author": [
      {
        "family": "Anderson",
        "given": "Elizabeth"
      }
    ],
    "editor": [
      {
        "family": "Zalta",
        "given": "Edward N."
      },
      {
        "family": "Nodelman",
        "given": "Uri"
      }
    ],
    "accessed": {
      "date-parts": [
        [
          "2024",
          11,
          18
        ]
      ]
    },
    "issued": {
      "date-parts": [
        [
          "2024"
        ]
      ]
    }
  }
]