ABSTRACT
This chapter explicates how feminist scholarship and feminist activism position themselves in relation to the production of knowledge as essential (political) activity. It shows the significance of the thematic constellation for gender studies. The chapter aims to explicate how the question of knowledge – in both its production and its results – lies at the heart of feminist academic and political practice. It discusses the question of and the quest for knowledge in a fact–fictional historical diagnosis in order to show how 'women' have appeared in relation to knowledge production throughout most of human history: as objects rather than subjects of knowledge. The chapter further presents how then the precarious issue of participating in the production of knowledges is taken up in feminist scholarship. The 'science question in feminism' can therefore be understood broadly as a most timely transformation for all scientific knowledge claims and daily knowledges, both of which continually determine lived (political) realities.
