Science ,Technology and Society

Her version of feminist science is just a reflection of her basic concern for the social and community based nature of science. Such epistemic communities also include feminists. Such epistemic agents would provide better background beliefs by accommodating feminist lk concerns. That scientific knowledge should interact with the social,that scince is improved via feminist and communitarian approach.

Longino's version of feminism is :

“Feminism … is at its core in part about the expression of human potentiality. When feminists talk of breaking out and do break out of socially prescribed sex roles, when feminists criticize the institutions of dominations, we are thereby insisting on the capacity of humans –male and female –to act on perceptions of self and society and to act to bring about changes in self and society on the basis of these perceptions. (Longino 1990: 190)”

Lying behind feminism is the conception of human nature, of human beings as agents with capacities for self-consciousness, self-reflection, and self-determination and whose intentional states are efficacious.