1. ESSAY ON THE RELATIONSHIP OF F
ESSAY ON THE RELATIONSHIP OF FEMINIST ONTOLOGY AND EPISTEMOLOGY AND SOCIAL RESEARCH Feminist theory, it should be mentioned from the beginning of the paper, is not a unified theory. ... For example, feminists believe that the concepts of scientific neutrality, or objectivity, or the belief that we can achieve "pure" knowledge of the social world, have all contributed to the androcentric status of the social sciences. In this essay we will attempt to define what is meant by "conventional epistemologies" (focussing primarily upon Sociology), suggesting also that different feminist epistem...
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