Myths, beliefs, values: how to make science more «scientific»? how to make reality more «real»?

Abstract

The development of the feminism in science can be appreciated so much from both sociological and epistemological views. Along this paper, it will be explored the type of articulations that the feminism has elaborated in the processes tied to the production of the scientific knowledge, and its own contents. The three different waves of the feminism contributed to the processes of construction of scientific knowledge, to the accessibility of women to the institutions or determined areas and to the elaboration of new models. But the feminist critics also became fundamental not only to overcome scientific determinisms, as biological one, but also to give new philosophical approaches to make possible a more scientific and real science.