ABSTRACT
Feminist thought helps us better understand the working of the social world because it expands our perspectives and horizons of our world by including and recognizing women as crucial players. Feminist scholarship brings women’s voice into our conversation about reality and life, thereby disrupting the conventional masculine order of things by exploring the multiple and complex pathways of knowledge. Moreover, it develops a women-centered approach to knowledge, which not only listens to the voices of women, but also tunes in to those of men. Specifically, for our purposes, feminist thought offers us a praxisoriented approach to understanding women’s roles. That is, it actively ferrets out and probes the problems of education by duly focusing on women, with a view to practically ameliorating their conditions on a practical level-in other words, providing better access to education.
