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The SAGE Handbook of Feminist Theory Edited by Mary Evans, Clare Hemmings, Marsha Henry, Hazel Johnstone, Sumi Madhok, Ania Plomien and Sadie Wearing 00_Evans et al_BAB1404B0065_Prelims.indd 3 26-Apr-14 6:13:23 PM 1 Feminist epistemology and the politics of knowledge: questions of marginality L o r r a i n e C o d e Epistemology was a late-comer to feminist silence the sceptic. Any hint of relativism analysis and critique. Although various such as is implicit in the suggestion that sex – a explanations for its tardiness might be non-intellectual, non-rational, individual advanced, central among them must surely characteristic of putative knowers – could be the intransigence of a conviction that, play a constitutive part in the production of while ethics and politics might well be knowledge threatened to undermine the shaped by gender relations and other human founding principles of ‘the epistemological ‘differences’, knowledge worthy of the project’. It unsettled taken-for-granted beliefs (honorific) title must transcend all such spe- about