[Revised entry by Heidi Grasswick on October 16, 2026.
Changes to: Main text, Bibliography]
Many of the significant contributors to the continually developing field of social epistemology have been feminist epistemologists, theorists who investigate the role of gender and other social identity markers within the practices of knowledge production. Motivated by the political project of eliminating the oppression of women, feminist epistemologists are interested in how the norms and practices of knowledge production both affect the lives of variously situated women and are themselves implicated in multiple systems of oppression….

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