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.

A feminist reading of María Puig de la Bellacasa’s account of care as maintenance, affect and political obligation - from knowledge-making to permaculture and living soil.

Annick T. R. Wibben uses narrative analysis to show how security stories define threats, authorize responses, and exclude situated experiences.

Sharmila Rege reads Dalit women's life narratives as historical and theoretical knowledge, asking who gets to write caste and gender into India's feminist history.

Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí questions how ‘woman’ became a universal category, tracing Western gender theory through Yoruba history, language, and colonial knowledge-making.

Patricia Hill Collins links Black women’s knowledge and self-definition to resistance and social justice, examining work, family, motherhood, and controlling images.

Through education, women’s status, and racial politics, Anna Julia Cooper asks who may speak for Black communities and how Black women can reshape knowledge and public life.