Knowledge is situated and embodied. Ask whose experience counts as evidence, who is left out, and who benefits.
Key thinkers: Donna Haraway, Sandra Harding, Lorraine Code
The longer story
Feminist epistemology asks how gender shapes what counts as knowledge—who can be a knower, what questions get asked, whose evidence is credible. It's a family of approaches: feminist empiricism corrects androcentric bias; feminist standpoint claims women's position offers epistemic advantage; feminist postmodernism questions stable categories altogether. Haraway's 'situated knowledges' insist all knowledge comes from somewhere—embodied and embedded. The question isn't escaping your perspective but being accountable for it. For research, this means examining how gender operates in your field, your methods, and your own position as researcher.