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Feminist social scientists have been, and still are, facing special epistemological and methodological problems. Critical Rationalism offers some basic insights that could be very helpful to them in these concerns.
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Agassi, J.B. (1995). Epistemological and Methodological Concerns of Feminist Social Scientists. In: Jarvie, I.C., Laor, N. (eds) Critical Rationalism, the Social Sciences and the Humanities. Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, vol 162. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0441-0_9
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