ABSTRACT
This chapter examines how boundaries of scientificity are drawn in scholars and how that boundary-work produces a representation of Women’s, Gender, Feminist Studies (WGFS) as a field that is partly within, and partly outside, the space of proper knowledge. It acknowledgement that there are valid arguments for a feminist defence of epistemic privilege, but takes an explicitly sceptical position in relation to that defence, framing it as an issue of personal interest rather than epistemic quality. The chapter also examines that gender research is important, but is sounder if/when it uses non-WGFS theories and/or is conducted by non-WGFS scholars. It discusses epistemic splitting as something that non-WGFS scholars do to WGFS. The power to dismiss some WGFS scholarship as epistemically deficient 'is not something that is divided between those who have it and hold it exclusively, and those who do not have it and are subject to it'.
