Abstract

The starting point of feminist theories of knowledge and science is the critique of androcentrism and sexism in the sciences, including in media and communication studies. Fundamental concepts include feminist epistemologies, which encompass the history of science and sociology of science, as well as situated knowledge, which takes into account the respective standpoint of the researchers. Concepts of feminist standpoint theories, feminist empiricism, and approaches of de/constructivist and de- or postcolonial epistemologies, as well as current epistemological approaches to diversity, intersectionality, posthumanism, and new materialism, are the central discourses of feminist theory of knowledge, which always imply questions of objectivity.