As we’ve come to understand over the course of our class, a central aim of feminist science and technology studies involves persistently posing the questions: what counts as objective truth, who decides this, and on what basis are claims to truth legitimately made? During the last weeks of our course in particular, we’ve explored the relationship between various understandings of expertise and the relationship(s) of expert forms of knowledge to power, privilege, and the possibility of equity, justice, freedom, and democracy.

As we’ve come to understand over the course of our class, a central aim of feminist science and technology studies involves persistently posing the questions: what counts as objective truth, who decides this, and on what basis are claims to truth legitimately made? During the last weeks of our course in particular, we’ve explored the relationship between various understandings of expertise and the relationship(s) of expert forms of knowledge to power, privilege, and the possibility of equity, justice, freedom, and democracy.