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A) Instructions:
1) The assignment question is given below)
2. Answer the assignment question in approximately 1000 words.
3. Type your answer on a word doc and covert it to a pdf before uploading.
4. DO NOT upload image of your answer
5. Re-type the assignment question before typing the answer.
6. Title your pdf submission: [your name: Feminist Epistemology]
7. Write your name-surname, roll no., paper no. and semester no. at the right top corner.
8. Your assignment will be subjected to plagiarism test available in google classroom. More than 20% plagiarism in the form of cut, copy and paste will lead to failure.
9. Late submissions will invite 2 marks negative marking.
Assignment Questions
1. From what you have read, how would the adoption of a feminist perspective transform your understanding of the history of philosophy, theory of knowledge, metaphysics, ethics, political theory and practice, religion? If women had not been excluded from social and intellectual life throughout history, how would our culture be different today? (8 marks)
2. Imagine that you had been born a member of the opposite sex. What are some possible advantages this act might give you as a knower, as a member of society, or in other ways?
What disadvantages would you face that you currently do not have? To what degree are these advantages or disadvantages the result of how society has been structured in the past? To what degree are they the result of natural differences between males and females? Still imagining that you are a member of the opposite sex, what changes would you want to make in society? (8 marks)
3. A number of issues that divide feminists have been mentioned in this section. The following pairs of opposing claims have all been defended by feminists:
(1a) There is an essential female nature;
(1b) other than strictly biological facts, any content associated with woman or female is a social construct and has no fixed meaning;
(2a) traits typically associated with females (caring, emotional, intuitive) are male stereotypes and tools of oppression;
(2b) such female characteristics are real and enable women to have insights not available to men;
(3a) objectivity is a myth, and feminists should embrace relativism and subjective ways of approaching the world;
(3b) without a strong commitment to the possibility of objective knowledge, feminists’ knowledge claims would be inconsequential.
Imagine that you are attempting to develop your own, coherent version of feminism. Consistent with this project, argue for one or the other position on each of these controversial issues.