... our discussion of conventional epistemologies referring to the positivist tradition), exclude in their discussion women. As S. Harding puts forward (1987), "epistemology" answers questions about who can be a "knower" and what tests beliefs must pass in order to be legitimated as knowledge. Yet, Traditional epistemologies systematically exclude the possibility that women could be "knowers" or agents of knowledge; they claim that the ... ...

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