| This paper addresses the challenge of feminism to positivism in epistemology and methodology since the second
feminist thoughts. This challenge aims at reflection and re-illumination, not at subversion. As to epistemology, three is-
sues are related: who is possessed of the knowledge, what kind of knowledge can be obtained, and what the knowledge is.
Furthermore, the topics of Subjective and Objective, Insider and Outsider, as well as Qualitative research and Quantita-
tive research are involved in the discussion on methodology |