Political Implication of Feminist Epistemology

Abstract

If we look at the historical conditions that led to the rise of feminism, it seems newlinethat feminism is a social and political movement intended to alleviate the newlineposition of women in society. But during the second wave s radical phase, newlinefeminism was defined as a mode of analysis of social conditions, gradually it newlineassumed prominence through analysing and critiquing the whole knowledge newlineparadigm, in which the maleness of knowledge was sustained and women newlinewere relegated to the margins. It happened simply because womenfolk were newlinehardly the creator of such knowledge. In 1970 s and following decades women newlinebiologists with a commitment to uncovering the sexist assumption in their newlineresearch areas developed feminist critiques of biological theories; they claimed newlinethat hidden (or sometimes not so hidden) assumptions about gendered social newlineroles motivated and shaped research programs in evolutionary theory, newlineprimatology, (Donna Haraway, Emily Martin, Nancy Tuana and Zuleyma newlineTang Halpin these feminists come from the same tradition, who revealed the newlinecultural ,patriarchal underpinnings of the so called objective science they newlinehighlighted that androcentric bias is rampant even within the hard sciences newlinethat we often take for granted as scientific and objective.) developmental newlinebiology, medicine and neuro science newline