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The Radical Future of Feminist Empiricism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Nancy Tuana
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Abstract

I argue that Nelson's feminist transformation of empiricism provides the basis of a dialogue across three currently competing feminist epistemologies: feminist empiricism, feminist standpoint theories, and postmodern feminism, a dialogue that will result in a dissolution of the apparent tensions between these epistemologies and provide an epistemology with the openness and fluidity needed to embrace the concerns of feminists.

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Hypatia , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , Winter 1992 , pp. 100 - 114
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Copyright © 1992 by Hypatia, Inc.

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