Braging Feminist Theory

Feminist research and methods are a response to research that claims to be able to find truth about the world through objective and neutral means, such as the scientific method which claims that researchers can and should be unbiased and that it is possible to observe and measure phenomena. These research methods are based in a philosophy called positivism that claims that only real knowledge is produced from scientific methods. Often in this type of research women are overlooked and misrepresented. Feminist scholars contested, and continue to contest, the claims that researchers can be unbiased and neutral and that the scientific method is the only way to produce knowledge (Gatenby & Humphries 2000). In response, new methods have been proposed that
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