Abstract
This chapter explores the epistemological challenges of studying gender in the natural and physical sciences, and explores the methodological tools the field has developed to study the human, non-human, life and non-life. Feminist theorists of science have long recognized that it is difficult to decouple questions of method with those of methodology and epistemology. Three decades of feminist scholarship have taught us to carefully examine disciplinary knowledge claims and to develop new methodologies, epistemologies and methods to produce more reliable accounts of the world. The fields of women's studies and science and technology studies (STS) emerged from social movements and political struggles for a more just and inclusive world. Feminist science and technology studies (FSTS) bridges these two fields in recognizing the importance of the interconnections between studies of gender and science. Understanding the role of science in the co-constitution of sex, gender, race and sexuality has been undertheorized.
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