The focus that binds together all branches of feminist research is their strong commitment to research models that focus on women’s issues, and their rejection of quantitative and positivistic methods.
Feminist research is preoccupied with the social construction of ‘knowing and being known’
Feminist research is politically value-laden and critical, and as such it is not methodic, but clearly dialectical.
Feminist research employs multiple methodologies and paradigms.
In feminist research, objectivity is totally rejected by all researchers and in all possible forms.
Feminist empiricists accept objectivist principles of knowledge creation.
Feminist empiricism does not employ traditional research methods.
Postmodern feminists are critical of certain feminist practices, particularly theories of gender and patriarchy.
Postmodern feminists accept the foundational grounding of knowledge, the universalising claims for the scope of knowledge.
Feminist researchers argue overwhelmingly in favour of a feminist epistemology.
Feminist postmodernists object to the notion that truth is a ‘destructive illusion’.
All feminists reject the objectivist principles of knowledge creation.