Women and Knowledge in Political Science

This article examines the gendered nature of the assumptions and traditions of political science. The discussion covers the assumptions about women's roles present at the founding of political science in the late nineteenth century, the coverage of women and gender in the earliest textbooks in the discipline, and the gender assumption of contemporary analyses of political science. The theoretical concern of this article is to determine which epistemologies underpin the introductory and self-reflexive literature and to assess the awareness of the authors of these works concerning the linkages between gender and epistemologies.