Interventions in a cat's cradle

Abstract

What are feminist science studies? Feminist science studies have emerged as a monstrous transdisciplinary hybrid on the academic scene, mixing political concerns and objectives with scientific knowledge production. Within feminist science studies this monstrosity is often regarded as an epistemological and methodological as well as a political strength. At the same time the hybridity of feminist science studies represents a theoretical challenge itself: what is the epistemological and ideological glue that prevents feminist science studies from disintegrating into other kinds of critical science studies? Or, to be more precise: what is the discursive and, ultimately, the ideological function of the notion of feminism in specific knowledge producing contexts such as, for instance, feminist science studies? The article takes a closer look at the feminism in feminist science studies by discussing the notion of feminism as critique.