Guzmán M. y Pére A. 2005. Las Epistemologías Feministas y la Teoría de Género. Cinta moebio 22: 112-126

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Feminist Epistemologies and Gender Theory

Maricela Guzmán Cáceres (mari68mx@yahoo.com.mx) y Augusto Renato Pérez Mayo (raperez@uvmnet.edu). Sociólogos. Universidad del Valle de México, campus Villahermosa (México)

Abstract

In this paper we discuss the eminently ideological and political character of feminist epistemologies. We draw attention to their weakness in terms of their lack of demarcation of a particular gender philosophy, of genuine scientific theories and methods activating each of the epistemic paradigms. All this hinders the construction of an authentic gender philosophy and therefore, a gender theory able to match the criteria demanded by traditional scientific epistemologies.

Key words: Epistemology, feminist epistemology, gender philosophy, gender theory, scientific method.