Feminist epistemology Piercy’s Woman on the edge of time

1989 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Billie Maciunas
Keyword(s):  
Social Activity ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Feminist Epistemology ◽  
Sandra Harding ◽  
Critical Interpretation ◽  
Knowledge Seeking ◽  
Feminist Epistemologies

Sandra Harding's view of science as a social activity leads her to propose critical interpretation as a mode of knowledge-seeking particularly useful for theorizing "the effects on the natural sciences of gender symbolism, gender structure, and individual gender." I have chosen Piercy's novel, Woman on the Edge of Time, with a view toward discovering how a contemporary American feminist writer envisions a non-gendered society. Specifically, I will examine some of the ways in which Piercy's imaginary culture relates to Harding's discussion of feminist epistemologies that are emerging as a response to sexist, classist and racist policies in science. A visão de Sandra Harding da ciência como uma atividade social, leva-a a propor uma interpretação crítica como um modo de conhecimento particularmente útil para teorizar "os efeitos nas ciências naturais de simbolismo de gênero, estrutura de gênero, e gênero individual." Escolhi o romance de Piercy, Woman on the Edge of Time, com o objetivo de descobrir como a escritora feminista contemporânea vê uma sociedade isenta de gênero. Especificamente, examinei algumas formas em que a cultura imaginária de Piercy relaciona-se com a discussão das epistemologias feministas de Harding, que estão emergindo como uma resposta a políticas sexistas, classistas e racistas.

scholarly journals Ensuring the priority of health care in the activities of the state

2021 ◽  
pp. 73-80
Author(s):  
B. Maksymchuk ◽  
S. Lysyuk ◽  
N. Vyshnivska ◽  
I. Shaparenko ◽  
S. Myronenko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Human Health ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Social Consciousness ◽  
The State ◽  
Future Teacher ◽  
The World ◽  
The Subject

The legal provision of valeological education of the future teacher is regulated by several national and international documents according to the hierarchical principle. Ukraine acquires rights, duties, and, most importantly, opportunities in the development of the authentic valeological space at all levels of political and social activity, gradually entering the world social, medical, psychological, and valeological community. In the state documents on education, considerable attention is paid to the implementation of a social request, a social order related to the search for new forms of training of a specialist in the educational and recreational field, who should perfectly possess the main and related professions, can solve the tasks of training specialists in conditions of competitiveness, integrativity, and intensity of activity. Now in our state, several laws stimulate the introduction of valeological education for the general masses of the population. Although in the Ukrainian legal field valeological issues are solved dualistically (as medical and extra medical, therapeutic and preventive, special and general), now there is every opportunity to make valeological culture a publicly available component of universal humanity. Naturally, the subject of reflection of various forms of social consciousness at different times was a person, his spiritual and/or physical perfection. So, within the framework of philosophy, as a joint foremother of the humanities and, to a large extent, the natural sciences, psychological, pedagogical, and medical theories of human health and existence developed.

A Chicana Feminist Epistemology Revisited: Cultivating Ideas a Generation Later

2012 ◽  
Vol 82 (4) ◽  
pp. 513-539 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dolores Calderón ◽  
Dolores Delgado Bernal ◽  
Lindsay Pérez Huber ◽  
María Malagón ◽  
Verónica Nelly Vélez
Keyword(s):  
Educational Research ◽  
Ways Of Knowing ◽  
Review Article ◽  
Gloria Anzaldua ◽  
Feminist Epistemology ◽  
Harvard Educational Review ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Decolonizing Methodologies ◽  
Chicana Feminist Epistemology ◽  
Feminist Epistemologies

this article, the authors simultaneously examine how education scholars have taken up the call for (re)articulating Chicana feminist epistemological perspectives in their research and speak back to Dolores Delgado Bernal's 1998 Harvard Educational Review article, “Using a Chicana Feminist Epistemology in Educational Research.” They address the ways in which Chicana scholars draw on their ways of knowing to unsettle dominant modes of analysis, create decolonizing methodologies, and build upon what it means to utilize Chicana feminist epistemology in educational research. Moreover, they demonstrate how such work provides new narratives that embody alternative paradigms in education research. These alternative paradigms are aligned with the scholarship of Gloria Anzaldúa, especially her theoretical concepts of nepantla, El Mundo Zurdo, and Coyolxauhqui. Finally, the authors offer researcher reflections that further explore the tensions and possibilities inherent in employing Chicana feminist epistemologies in educational research.

scholarly journals The Grammar of Knowledge: A Look at Feminism and Feminist Epistemologies

Šolsko polje ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol XXXI (5-6) ◽  
pp. 139-146
Author(s):  
Valerija Vendramin
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Feminist Epistemology ◽  
Epistemic Status ◽  
Negative Effect ◽  
Feminist Epistemologies ◽  
Field Of Inquiry

The aim of the article is to reflect indirectly first on all the contributions in this volume, and second to help fix the present line of thought onto feminist epistemologies. Some postulates of feminist epistemologies are presented. The key question of feminist epistemology as a field of inquiry is defined according to Iris Van Der Tuin (2016) – it involves “the epistemic status of the knowledge produced by privileged and marginalized subjects”, and the reflection about the intersection of knowledge and power. There are ethical and moral implications here: the challenge and responsibility to recognise power relations. If a knowing subject is understood as epistemically inferior, this has a negative effect on how they are understood in non-epistemic contexts (Fricker, 2017). Feminism, in other words, is an epistemological project (Bahovec, 2002).

Feminist Epistemology and the Extent of the Social

Hypatia ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 85-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Owen Webb
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Epistemology ◽  
Sandra Harding ◽  
The Social ◽  
Lynn Hankinson Nelson

Many feminist epistemologists have been inclined to embrace socialized epistemology. There are, however, many different theses that go by that name. Sandra Harding, Lynn Hankinson Nelson, and Elizabeth Potter hold various of these theses, but their reasons for holding those theses, while they do support less ambitious theses, do not support the theses they are offered to support.

scholarly journals THE NEW EXPERIMENTALISM AND THE VALUE OF EXPERIMENTAL JUSTIFICATION IN EMPIRICAL SCIENCES

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (S2) ◽  
pp. 21-59
Author(s):  
Mieczysław Bombik
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Fundamental Problem ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Economic Factors ◽  
Nineteen Nineties ◽  
Theory Of Science ◽  
Real Objects ◽  
History Of ◽  
Experimental Justification

This article briefly presents and characterizes a relatively young (nineteen-nineties) trend in methodology, the theory of science – and philosophy, called “the new experimentalism”. The fundamental problem is determined by the question about the value of the new experimentalism and experimental grounds of scientific knowledge in empirical sciences. In the first part of the article, the previous (old) experimentalism is presented. First of all, the history of the experimental method is outlined and the definitions of experiment, object, phenomenon, and of the carried out and analyzed observation are provided. It is shown why the main proposition of experimentalists – “determining a fact based on sensory experience” is fallacious. The second part describes the way in which the representatives of the new experimentalism try to identify and characterize those factors of an experiment that guarantee the objectivity of its result; demonstrate that results are not only determined by psychological, historical, sociological or economic factors but also that they exist in nature as real objects and events. A correct and reliable analysis of the experiment and its results may – according to the new experimentalists – contribute to this conclusion. Therefore, the important role and value of the experimental foundation of social activity in general, and in particular, for the natural sciences, is rightly noted.

SITUATING FEMINIST EPISTEMOLOGY

Episteme ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 28-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Natalie Alana Ashton ◽  
Robin McKenna
Keyword(s):  
Social Constructivism ◽  
Standpoint Theory ◽  
Feminist Epistemology ◽  
Feminist Standpoint Theory ◽  
Feminist Standpoint ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
The Social ◽  
Core Idea ◽  
Feminist Epistemologies

ABSTRACTFeminist epistemologies hold that differences in the social locations of inquirers make for epistemic differences, for instance, in the sorts of things that inquirers are justified in believing. In this paper we situate this core idea in feminist epistemologies with respect to debates about social constructivism. We address three questions. First, are feminist epistemologies committed to a form of social constructivism about knowledge? Second, to what extent are they incompatible with traditional epistemological thinking? Third, do the answers to these questions raise serious problems for feminist epistemologies? We argue that some versions of two of the main strands in feminist epistemology – feminist standpoint theory and feminist empiricism – are committed to a form of social constructivism, which requires certain departures from traditional epistemological thinking. But we argue that these departures are less problematic than one might think. Thus, (some) feminist epistemologies provide a plausible way of understanding how (some) knowledge might be socially constructed.

Contingent Natures and Virtuous Knowers: Could Epistemology be ‘Gendered’

2002 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 389-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Kukla ◽  
Laura Ruetsche
Keyword(s):  
Epistemology Of Science ◽  
Traditional Epistemology ◽  
Sandra Harding ◽  
Genetic Fallacy ◽  
Feminist Epistemologies

When Sandra Harding called for an epistemology of science whose systematic attention to the gendered Status of epistemic agents renders it ‘less partial and distorted’ than ‘traditional’ epistemologies, some commentators recoiled in horror. Propelled by ‘a mad form of the genetic fallacy’ they said, she descends ‘the slide to an arational account of science.’ On a less melodramatic reading, feminist epistemologies such as Harding's advocate not irrationalism, but senses of rationality more expanded than those which they associate with ‘traditional’ epistemology.

scholarly journals MIECZYSŁAW KONOPACKI – THE OUTSTANDING POLISH HISTOLOGIST, ANATOMIST, AND FREEMASON ACTIVIST

2021 ◽  
Vol 74 (9) ◽  
pp. 2228-2231
Author(s):  
Waldemar Gniadek
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Vice President ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Active Part ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Activist ◽  
The Many ◽  
The University ◽  
Organization Of Science

This article presents the life and work of Professor Mieczysław Konopacki, a Polish physician, freemason, social and political activist. Mieczysław Konopacki was born in 1880 in Wieluń, a town with almost 800 years of history. After passing his secondary school-leaving examinations in 1899, he began his studies at the University of Warsaw. Thanks to his diligence and commitment to research, in 1903, he received the degree of candidate of all-natural sciences at the Imperial Warsaw University. In the same year, he was arrested by the Russian authorities for his involvement in developing education in the Polish countryside and forced to move to Cracow, where he began his studies at the Faculty of Medicine of the Jagiellonian University. In 1907, he married and moved to Lviv with his wife, who was also an embryologist. There, the couple began working at the Histology Department. Also, there, in 1911, Mieczysław Konopacki obtained his doctor’s degree in medicine. He was an extremely hard-working and broad-minded man. He was a member of many associations and international scholar organizations. He took an active part in many congresses and symposia. In independent Poland, Professor Konopacki was involved in the organization of science. He tried to compensate for the many years of neglect caused by the policy of the partitioners. In 1933 Professor Konopacki was elected Vice President of the Warsaw Branch of the Young Men’s Christian Association. Complementing the social activity of Professor Konopacki was his activity in the Grand National Lodge of Poland. He died in Warsaw on September 25, 1939, fatally struck by shrapnel from a German bullet.

Feminist Epistemology: Rethinking the Dualisms of Atomic Knowledge

Hypatia ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 202-210 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Sells
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Epistemology ◽  
Sandra Harding ◽  
The Relationship

Feminist epistemologists who attempt to refigure epistemology must wrestle with a number of dualisms. This essay examines the ways Lorraine Code, Sandra Harding, and Susan Hekman reconceptualize the relationship between self/other, nature/culture, and subject/object as they struggle to reformulate objectivity and knowledge.

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