Opressões epistêmicas : uma análise sob a perspectiva feminista

Abstract

In the dissertation entitled "Epistemic Oppressions: An Analysis from a Feminist Perspective," my aim is to investigate social phenomena of oppression and epistemic oppression using the Feminist Standpoint Theory as an analytical tool. The initial objective is to comprehend how the concept of oppression is understood in feminist political theory and how works in the field of political philosophy incorporate modifications to this concept. Initially, I focus on the proposals of Iris Marion Young (1990) and Ann E. Cudd (2006), with an emphasis on a social and historical view of the formation and modification of the concept of oppression. Subsequently, I direct these analyses to the field of social epistemology. Experts in the field have been endeavoring to understand social and epistemic structures that can generate a distinct type of oppression: epistemic oppression. This notion has sparked fruitful discussions not only in understanding the social aspect of oppression but also in the epistemic relations between agents and social groups. In this regard, the discussions in the second part of the work are grounded in the debate proposed by Miranda Fricker (2007) and Kristie Dotson (2012; 2014), both prominent authors in the field of social epistemology. I aim to briefly present Miranda Fricker's theory of epistemic injustice to enable an understanding of the critique and expansions offered by Dotson in her theory of epistemic oppression. To gain a deeper understanding of the debate on epistemic oppression, I turn to feminist standpoint epistemology, as this approach is comprehensive and can provide conceptual tools that may assist in understanding some epistemological issues, including the influence of marginalized social positions on the production and transmission of knowledge.