Feminist standpoint on social media sites and internet practices

Feminist philosophy of science: ‘standpoint’ and knowledge

Feminist philosophy of science has been criticized on several counts. On the one hand, it is claimed that it results in relativism of the worst sort since the political commitment to feminism is prima facie incompatible with scientific objectivity. On the other hand, when critics acknowledge that there may be some value in work that feminists have done, they comment that there is nothing partic...

Feminist Philosophy of Science : Standpoint Matters

Feminist standpoint theory has a contentious history. It is an explicitly political as well as social epistemology, characterized by the thesis that those who are marginalized or oppressed under conditions of systemic inequity may, in fact, be better knowers, in a number of respects, than those who are socially or economically privileged. Their epistemic advantage arises from the kinds of exper...

Feminisms and Cross-ideological Feminist Social Research: Standpoint, Situatedness and Positionality

When we consider the different cultural spaces in which feminist social researchers might be carrying out empirical research the nature of ‘feminist social research’ becomes difficult to define. The issue becomes even more complex when we consider the multiple standpoints, contexts and positionalities of different kinds of feminists from diverse backgrounds, both secular and religious. There ca...

Internet and Social Media Addiction

This book is a fruitful discussion of the Internet and social media addiction in the digital era. It includes informative and impressive facts about this issue. It clarifies the consequences of the extreme usage of Internet and social media in four educative chapters. The publisher of this book, “ReferencePoint Press”, introduced the “Compact Research Series” to think deeply with focusing on 3 ...

Feminist Media Perspectives