Epistemology of Gender and Sexuality: Essay in Social and Feminist Epistemology

Rad predstavlja pokušaj razrade problematike socijalne uvjetovanosti koncepata znanja o seksualnosti i rodu, i to napose u okvirima disciplina socijalne te feminističke epistemologije. Problematizirajući jednu od čvorišnih točaka socijalne epistemologije – problem svjedočanstva, pokušava se iznaći konvergentne točke feminističke epistemologije s ostalim kritičkim pristupima klasičnoj, individualističkoj epistemologiji. U tom se horizontu pokušava artikulirati i primijeniti Foucaultove i Butlerine teze o diskurzivno proizvodećim konceptima znanja na tradicionalne koncepte znanja iz individualističke epistemologije.This paper presents an attempt to elaborate the problem of socially determined concepts of knowledge on sexuality and gender particularly in the field of social and feminist epistemology. Dealing with one of the nodal points of social epistemology – the problem of testimony, author tries to find convergences between feminist epistemology and other critical approaches to classical, individualistic epistemology. Within this framework, Foucault’s and Butler’s theses on discoursively producing concepts of knowledge are being articulated and applied to the traditional individualistic epistemology’s concepts of knowledge