Feminisms and epistemologies of medical ignorance

Seminar hosted by the Research Project Ethics in Motion

14.00-16.00 in Veröld 008 30th of April

Participants:

Julia Vélez Ramos, Anna Gotlib, Emma Rivard Henriot and Nanna Hlín Halldórsdóttir

In this seminar, we’ll explore epistemologies of ignorance in relation to women’s health. From feminist studies, this framework reveals how women’s bodies have been ignored, how certain forms of knowledge have been hidden or dismissed, and how entire communities have been pushed to unlearn what they once knew. Building on feminist work on epistemologies of ignorance, we’ll explore how not‑knowing is socially produced within women’s health: what gets obscured, why it happens, and with what consequences.

Throughout the session, we’ll look at how this socially constructed ignorance has shaped medical history and how it continues to affect women and other groups that have been systematically marginalized.