GSFS 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Thai Royal And Noble Titles, Scientific Method, Charlotte Perkins Gilman

• School: McGill University
• Department: Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies
• Course: GSFS 300
• Professor: Mary Bunch

Document Summary

Outline: t. khun + scientific revolutions, 2 outdated paradigms. 2: positivism > assumed objectivity: feminist / anti-oppression revolutions in knowledge. Paradigm shifts and feminist research: existing paradigm (normal science) New paradigm (return to normal science: thomas khun: structure of scientific revolutions. Geocentric model: model of universe > heliocentric model of the universe. Paradigm shifts : normal science > crisis > period of extraordinary science > new paradigm > old paradigm abandoned > enables us to ask new questions > normal science. Androcentric bias: charlotte perkins gilman, 1911, male-centred - the implicit conflation of maleness w/ humanity. Critiques of androcentric bias: feminist research begins with questioning and critiquing androcentric bias within the disciplines, challenging traditional researchers to include gender as a category of analysis. We can observe the beginnings of an overall challenge to the scientific method itself and the emergence of new paradigms of thinking about basic foundational questions: