On the alleged incompatibility between relativism and feminist psychology

Feminism and Psychology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 91-106

  Hepburn, Alexa ^a  

^a NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Criticism; Epistemology; Feminism; Objectivism; Politics; Postmodernism; Realism; Relativism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034387854     PISSN: 09593535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959353500010001012     Document Type: Article

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