"Philosophers, when they have addressed the issue at all, have tended to group philosophy with science as the most gender-neutral of all disciplines. But feminist critiques reveal that this alleged neutrality masks a bias in favor of institutionalizing stereotypical masculine values into the fabric of the discipline–its methods, norms, and contents. In so doing, it suppresses values, styles, problems, and concerns stereotypically associated with femininity. Thus, whether by chance or by design, it creates a hegemonic philosophical practice in which the sex of the knower is, indeed epistemologically significant."
-Lorraine Code
Emanuella Kant
Davitte Hume
Juanita Locke
Renée Descartes
"Supposing truth is a woman–what then? Are there not grounds for the suspicion that all philosophers, insofar as they were dogmatists, have been very inexpert about women? That the gruesome seriousness, the clumsy obtrusiveness with which they have usually approached truth so far have been awkward and very improper methods for winning a woman's heart?"
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Interesting perspectives. What would it have been like had knowledge production been in the hands of women?
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