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The paper discusses how the feminist approaches to the production and construction of social knowledge stress the central importance of gender. The paper explains that for example, they highlight the fact that so-called objective paradigms are not objective at all, but rather are founded on androcentrism, which colours every aspect of the scientific process.

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"In general, the feminist approaches to the production and construction of social knowledge stress the central importance of gender. For example, they highlight the fact that so-called objective paradigms are not objective at all, but rather are founded on androcentrism, which colours every aspect of the scientific process. Ontologically, gender relations are perceived as key in shaping the social world, and the importance of gender inequality is simultaneously acknowledged and perceived to be socially constructed. From feminist paradigms in social science are..."

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