ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses a type of feminist scholarship that resists normative ways of doing feminism in academia and instead seeks what Audre Lorde wrote about in 1984 as “consciousness absent from consideration” that knowledge produced outside intellectual tradition and by those removed from the hallowed halls of academia. Feminist epistemology is the understanding of how gender and other social positionalities influence concepts of knowledge and practices of inquiry and justification. It reveals questions and seeks to overcome Eurocentric assumptions about knowledge and its production. According to Sandra. Harding and Kathryn Norberg, feminists have long been concerned “about whether and how customary approaches to knowledge production promote or obstruct the development of more democratic social relations”. The term cyberfeminism was coined by Sadie Plant, director of the Cybernetic Culture Research Unit at the University of Warwick, “to describe the work of feminists interested in theorizing, critiquing, and exploiting the Internet, cyberspace, and new-media technologies in general”.
