Feminist EpistemologyBooks

Memorial Sloan Kettering oncologist and medical historian Dr. Elizabeth Comen unveils the collective medical history of women, exploring how medicine has long misunderstood women's bodies and how these historical oversights continue to affect women's health today.

It proposes seven practical principles that bring power analysis, intersectionality, situated knowledge, and co-design into data work itself.

María Puig de la Bellacasa extends care into more-than-human worlds, insisting that care can sustain worlds while also burdening and excluding.

Annick T. R. Wibben reconstructs security through narrative theory, asking who may tell threat stories and whose experience state-centered accounts exclude.

Sharmila Rege reads Dalit women’s testimonios to reopen the boundaries between literature, oral history, and social science through caste/gender experience.

Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí argues that Western scholarship projected a body-centered gender hierarchy onto Yoruba society, forcing feminist analysis to confront the colonial history of its own categories.

This groundbreaking work systematically articulates Black feminist epistemology, introducing key concepts like the 'matrix of domination' and 'controlling images.' Collins demonstrates how Black women develop unique standpoint epistemology, resisting multiple oppressions through self-definition and self-valuation, providing a comprehensive theoretical framework for intersectionality theory and Black women's knowledge traditions.