Cinta de Moebio: Revista de Epistemología de Ciencias Sociales

Trebisacce, C. (2016) Una historia crítica del concepto de experiencia de la epistemología feminista. Cinta moebio 57: 285-295. doi: 10.4067/S0717-554X2016000300004

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A critical history of the concept of experience in feminist epistemology

Catalina Trebisacce (catalinaptrebisacce@gmail.com) Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas (Buenos Aires, Argentina) ORCID: 0000-0002-6601-8858

Abstract

This article analyzes the innovations produced by the concept of experience, introduced from the feminist theory during the eighties. The experience was an epistemic invention to give account of what used to result exceeding, subsidiary, or invisible to the science legitimated as such. This theoretical-methodological tool led to redefinitions around the sense of objectivity and pointed out the political condition of a perspective that was declared as neutral. This work tries to throw some light over the critical strength that this epistemic tool had during those years, for which it chooses the historical perspective. At the same time, this article advances towards a critical analysis around certain modelling of the tool. In this sense, the article aims to sharpen the epistemic surveillance and to review the commitments that this has been acquiring with the institutionalization of the feminist perspective during the last decades.

Key words: feminist epistemology, experience, history, institutionalization, gender study.