Search for dissertations about: "Feminist Epistemology"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 12 swedish dissertations containing the words Feminist Epistemology.

2. 1. Explorations of a Sex Therapy Question in Feminism : Feminist Interventions in Sex Therapy

   Author : Björn Pernrud; Gerd Lindgren; Malin Wreder; Nina Lykke; Karlstads universitet; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Feminist Sex Therapy; Situated Knowledge; Legitimacy; Feminist Epistemology; Sociology; Sociologi; Sociologi; Sociology;

   Abstract : This study aims to investigate the consequences for feminist sex therapy that it is promoted as an alternative to a mainstream approach. Analytically I focus on the relation between normativity, claims to knowledge and professional legitimacy. READ MORE

4. 2. Crossing Boundaries, Focusing Foundations, Trying Translations : Feminist Technoscience Strategies in Computer Science

   Author : Christina Björkman; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; computer science; feminist research; epistemology;

   Abstract : In this thesis I explore feminist technoscience strategies in computer science, starting in “the gender question in computer science”, and ending up in communication and translation between feminist technoscience research and computer science educational practice. Necessary parts in this work concern issues of boundary crossings between disciplines, and focusing on the foundations of computer science: what it means to “know computer science”. READ MORE

5. 3. Estranging Cognition : Feminist Science Fiction and the Borders of Reason

   Author : Jenny Bonnevier; Rolf Lundén; Jane Donawerth; Brian Attebery; Uppsala universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; English language; science fiction; feminist theory; epistemology; Ursula Le Guin; Suzy McKee Charnas; Joanna Russ; Engelska; English language; Engelska språket; English; Engelska;

   Abstract : This study explores the intersections of three different fields: feminism, science fiction, and epistemology. It argues that as a genre, science fiction is dependent on epistemological discourses that have their roots in the stories and self-images of modern science. READ MORE

6. 4. A Sight/Site for Transparency or Opacity? Notes on Knowledge Production and Feminist Technoscience

   Author : Rebecka Molin; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; epistemology; knowledge production; feminist technoscience; situated knowledges; Mode 2; meaninglessness; transparency; opacity; function; representation;

   Abstract : The objective for my research has been to put forward and discuss some aspects of knowledge production in relation to the epistemological positions of feminist technoscience, which lay emphasis on the contextual and the social embeddedness of both research and technology. My main inquiry has been how the relation between the subject and the surrounding context can be perceived epistemologically and how this in turn can be connected to and found relevant to the supposed new mode of knowledge production termed Mode 2. READ MORE

7. 5. Child (Bio)Welfare and Beyond : Intersecting Injustices in Childhoods and Swedish Child Welfare

   Author : Zlatana Knezevic; Maria Eriksson; Els-Marie Anbäcken; Mia Heikkilä; Charlotte Williams; Mälardalens högskola; []
   Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; biowelfare; child protection; child welfare; critical childhood studies; critical social work; embodiment; epistemic injustice; epistemology; feminist theory; intersectionality; justice subjectivity; moral economy; moral subjectivity; participation; postcolonial theory; poststructural social work; social justice; violence; socialt arbete; Social Work;

   Abstract : The current thesis discusses how tools for analysing power are developed predominately for adults, and thus remain underdeveloped in terms of understanding injustices related to age, ethnicity/race and gender in childhoods. The overall ambition of this dissertation is to inscribe a discourse of intersecting social injustices as relevant for childhoods and child welfare, and by interlinking postcolonial, feminist, and critical childhood studies. READ MORE