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Introduction : when feminisms intersect epistemology / Linda Alcoff and Elizabeth Potter -- Taking subjectivity into account / Lorraine Code -- Rethinking standpoint epistemology : "What is strong objectivity"? / Sandra Harding -- Marginality and epistemic privilege / Bat-Ami Bar On -- Subjects, power and knowledge : description and prescription in feminist philosophies of science / Helen Longino -- Epistemological communities / Lynn Hankinson Nelson -- Gender and epistemic negotiation / Elizabeth Potter -- Bodies and knowledges : feminism and the crisis of reason / Elizabeth Grosz -- Are "old wives' tales" justified? / Vrinda Dalmiya and Linda Alcoff -- Feminism and objective interests : the role of transformation experiences in rational deliberation / Susan Babbitt -- Knowers/doers and their moral problems / Kathryn Pyne Addelson.

""Feminist Epistemology"" is a collection of original essays exploring the intersections of gender and knowledge. It focuses on the heart of traditional epistemology - a field of study that until now has proved largely impervious to feminist enquiry. Contributors examine the traditional problems of epistemology - the nature of knowledge, justification and objectivity. However, in probing the difference that gender makes to such questions, the questions themselves are transformed. As traditional assumptions are challenged from the perspective of gender, a new set of problems is revealed. Who is

The paper explores the ideas of feminist epistemologies in the 21st century: skepticism about objectivity, intersectional approach, epistemic injustice, etc. The author investigates the concepts of a hermeneutic gap, gaslighting and meta-ignorance, and gives the implications of these terms in higher education. The term «feminist epistemologies» is used in the paper in the plural since the attempts of oppressed groups to return the value of their own experience cannot be manifested in the existence of the only one universal epistemology. Rethinking the concepts of «knowledge», «knowing» with regard to women, disabled people, representatives of different races, sexual minorities becomes the core for the development of trans-epistemology, queer-epistemology, creep-epistemology, epistemology of resistance, epistemology of ignorance, etc. A particular contribution of feminist epistemologies is the attention to values and vested interests of privileged and oppressed groups in the sphere of knowledge production, which allows expanding the use of the concepts of epistemic injustice, epistemic advantage, and epistemic ignorance. The author raises a question: if power can lead to epistemic ignorance, while oppression, in turn — to epistemological advantage, does it mean that knowers from marginalized groups have the most complete knowledge? While there are many different research positions, none of the feminist epistemologies puts forward such a simplistic understanding of the connection between power and knowledge. The author argues that the relationship between knowledge and power cannot be described in such a way that the value of one's knowledge will increase while the power of oppressed groups will decrease. The study shows that feminist epistemologies are a «kaleidoscope» of alternative or «marginal» epistemologies.

Jane Duran's Worlds of Knowing begins to fill an enormous gap in the literature of feminist epistemology: a wide-ranging, cross-cultural primer on worldviews and epistemologies of various cultures and their appropriations by indigenous feminist movements in those cultures. It is the much needed epistemological counterpart to work on cross-cultural feminist social and political philosophy. This project is absolutely breath-taking in scope, yet a manageable read for anyone with some background in feminist theory, history, or anthropology. Duran draws many comparisons and connections to Wester

1 Introduction: Second Wave Trans Feminism -- Second Wave Feminism -- Trans Women and Men in the US Second Wave -- Trans Feminist Epistemologies -- Second Wave Feminism, Trans Feminism and the Evidence of Experience -- Print Culture in the Second Wave -- Methodology and Organisation -- Bibliography -- 2 The "Women" of Women's Liberation -- Feminism's Scholarly Story -- Women's Liberation in Print -- Margo Schulter's Lesbian Trans Feminism -- Trans Inclusion: From Dialogue to Discord -- Conclusion: The Plurality of the Second Wave -- Bibliography -- 3 Trans Feminist Phenomenology and Politics in the Journal of Male Feminism -- Evolving Taxonomies -- The Emergence of Trans Community Print Culture -- Autobiography and Community Generated Knowledge -- Photography, Autobiography, Epistemology -- Feeling Like a Woman: A Transfeminine Phenomenology of Womanhood -- Femonormativity -- Conclusion: Towards an Archive of Transfeminine Embodiment -- Bibliography -- 4 Andrea Dworkin and the Social Construction of Sex -- Emotion, Experience and Epistemic (In)Credibility -- Andrea Dworkin on Heterosexuality and Gender -- "The Culture of Male-Female Discreteness", or Cisnormativity -- Dworkin: Utopia and "Reality" -- Conclusion: Andrea Dworkin's Challenge to Cisgender Ideology -- Bibliography -- 5 The Category of "Sex" Before the Sex Wars -- Second Wave Feminism, Sex and Gender -- Sex and Gender Behind the Sceneso -- The Racial History of Sex and Gender -- Sex, Gender and Disciplinary Development -- Conclusion: From "Trans" to Feminism: The Direction of Travel of Feminism's Key Concepts -- Bibliography -- 6 Conclusion -- Sex, The Second Wave and Not Getting Stuck -- Before: Trans Studies -- Bibliography.