Kunskapens kön - ett generationsperspektiv

Abstract

The argument of this artide is that feminist analysis of the gender of knowledge would profit by using a generational perspective. By making use of Sandra Harding's concepts of structural, symbolic and individual gender, I suggest that it is possible to track down the structural dilemmas and the symbolic climate, specific to any one generation. This is done by positioning them in relation to their subjectivity and the epistemology they embrace. In an effort to illuminate the structural, symbolic and individual gender of four generations of feminists the artide examines four groups in chronological order namely "exceptional women", "pioneers", "the next to equal" and "individualists". The artide concludes by asking whether a radical epistemological critique will emanate from the new generation of women researchers - the generation of the "individualists" - who unlike their predecessors are not positioned as "outsiders within" the academy.