JUMPING GENERATIONS: On Second- and Third-wave Feminist Epistemology

Discusses the generation dimension of academic feminism, and more specifically with generational change in the field of feminist epistemology. Suggests that the taxonomies that originated in the work of Sandra Harding and Alison Jagger constitute the framework of a "second-wave feminist epistemology". Claims that a new generation of feminist epistemologists assess the second-wave feminist tendency to classify and moves beyond it towards a "third-wave" feminist order. Develops an argument about the extent to which second- and third-wave feminist epistemologies differ and about a way of capturing such generational change. (Quotes from original text)