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SILVA, Paula; GOMES, Paula B.; GRACA, Amândio  e  QUEIROS, Paula. About methodological debate in the feminist research. Rev. Port. Cien. Desp. [online]. 2005, vol.5, n.3, pp.358-370. ISSN 1645-0523.

Feminisms, related to the scientific and research community, fuelled a new dimension of criticisms in the middle 70’s of the last century, by suggesting the existence of androcentric bias in the development of scientific research. Tacitly knowledge identified the universal with the masculine, and when contemplated the feminine constituted the example of deviated results, strengthening the common sensical assumption of the inferiority and subordination of female sex. There are identifiable phases in the feminist research: the "visibility" phase, with studies only on women; the "difference" phase, whose studies queried the differences of gender; and the "gender relations" phase, which focuses on relations between men and women. The debate about the principles of feminist research and the complex relations between epistemology, methodologies and methods, continues to evolve, attempting to clarify a central question: what does it mean to do feminist research? It is not intended in these lines to solve dilemmas that are, since a few years ago, object of debates between feminists and non feminists scholars, or even among feminists, but to make apparent the themes of those debates, and making them object of reflection once we are sure it will promote a more critical and reflexive vision of our own research processes, whether they fit or not in the feminist research. The very focus of this paper is to enhance the visibility and highlight the worth of including feminist research within sport studies agenda.

Palavras-chave : feminist research; epistemology; methodologies; sport sciences.

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