id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-665 Feminist epistemology - Wikipedia .html text/html 5563 821 45 Post-modern thought marks a feminist group shift away from dominant, positivistic ideals of objectivity and universal understanding.[13] Instead, it acknowledges a diversity of unique human perspectives, none of which can claim absolute knowledge authority.[8] Post-Modern feminism has thus been critiqued for having a relativist-stance, where ongoing power relations between key identities have been often neglected attention.[13] It is possible to see this political stance in direct opposition to the "emancipatory aspirations" of women.[8] However, Saba Mahmood[18] would argue this critique is in some ways oppositional to global understandings of female desire, where the idea of 'freedom' is an essential, conditionally oppressive component to western feminism which may wrongly assume that women of eastern countries dominated by male power are victims needing to be liberated. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-665.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-665.txt