Feminist Epistemology, Research & Activism
October 9th 1:30-2:25pm
Location : 2001 9I制作厂免费 College 11th floor room 1140
This presentation explores feminist epistemology, research, and activism through the lens of abortion access.聽Feminist epistemology critiques traditional science for privileging male perspectives while excluding women from聽knowledge production. By emphasizing situated knowledge and 鈥渟trong objectivity鈥� (Harding), feminist approaches聽highlight how values, power, and social locations shape what counts as valid knowledge.
Abortion pills are a site of contested knowledge. Their history reveals tensions between science, politics, morality,聽and activist movements. The case of misoprostol in Brazil illustrates how communities reinterpret medical聽knowledge, showing alternative ways of knowledge creation.
Women on Web, one of the first online abortion services, has combined medical expertise, feminist values, and聽digital tools to support safe at-home abortions globally for two decades. Its activism and research have promoted the acceptance telemedicine abortion and helped push legal reforms. At the same time, Latin America鈥檚 self-managed聽abortion (SMA) movement has pioneered community-based knowledge on medication abortion and the聽demedicalization of abortion through feminist networks, and SMA models of care such as acompa帽amiento.聽Activists have pushed for, participated in, and conducted research to create the evidence needed to influence
medical guidelines and regulations.
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