Inhalt: "In much contemporary feminist discourse, the concepts of 'science' and 'gender' are
discredited as tools for analysing women's situation. Postmodernist debates criticise
the whole positivist enterprise that underlies 'the scientific method' and is reflected
in 'quantitative' and 'experimental' ways of knowing. Gender as a social construction
conceptually distinct from a 'biological' division into female and male has also been
called into question by postmodernist theories. This paper argues the desirability
of rehabilitating both the concepts of science and gender within a feminist discourse
committed to the practical liberation of women. Two current problems in women's health
care-cervical cancer screening and hormone replacement therapy-are examined as a case
study." (author's abstract)|
Schlagwörter:Frauenforschung; Gleichstellung; Hochschulwesen
CEWS Kategorie:Gleichstellungspolitik, Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Dokumenttyp:Zeitschriftenaufsatz