Abstract

SABIDO RAMOS, Olga Alejandra. Sociology and feminist epistemologies. Objetivities, emotions and embodied pedagogy. La ventana [online]. 2022, vol.6, n.56, pp.106-140.  Epub Aug 22, 2022. ISSN 1405-9436.

This article’s main purpose is to discuss some classic questions of epistemology, under the feminist epistemologies point of view, like: how is it possible to know, what symbolic and material conditions organize knowing, and transmission and teaching knowledge. I resort to the reasoning of relational sociology (Simmel, Elias, Bourdieu) and some feminist epistemologies (Longino, Harding, Smith, Haraway, Skeggs). I propose the link between objectivity and emotions and the need for embodied pedagogical practices that claim not only that knowledge is situated (Haraway, Skeggs) but also teaching (Simmel, hooks, Smith). I will show how questioning the naive objectivity of traditional epistemology makes it possible to challenge the cultural narrative of a disembodied and emotionless subject of knowledge. This epistemological strategy allows the vindication of emotions as an object of knowledge and a condition for the possibility of knowledge. Thus, I establish how a pedagogy embodied with and from the body claims the critical and mobilizing capacity of bodies and their feelings is possible.

Keywords : epistemology; sociology; feminism; pedagogy; gender.

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