Gender and Science BT - Discovering Reality: Feminist Perspectives on Epistemology, Metaphysics, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science

Abstract

BOKKAPITTEL (DENNE HAR EN DEL CITATIONS; MEN IKKE SÅ MYE SOM ARTIKKELEN HENNES FRA 1987): The requirements of ... correctness in practical judgements and objectivity in theoretical knowledge ... belong as it were in their form and their claims to humanity in general, but in their actual historical configuration they are masculine throughout. Supposing that we describe these things, viewed as absolute ideas, by the single word ‘objective’, we then find that in the history of our race the equation objective = masculine is a valid one (George Simmel, quoted by Horney, 1926, p. 200).