Gender -- Feminism's enlightenment legacy and its contradictions: Reason, science and progress: feminism's enlightenment inheritance ; Modern humanism ; Can feminists tell the truth? Challenges of scientific method ; Valid knowledge of social realities ; From truth/reality to knowledge/power:taking a feminist standpoint ; Haraway's greasy pole ; Nancy Hartsock: achieving a feminist standpoint ; Dorothy Smith: taking women's standpoint; beginning in experience ; Problems remain -- Freedom, fragmentation and resistance: Escape from epistemology? the impact of postmodern thought on feminist methodology ; Researching 'others':feminist methodology and the politics of difference ; Knowledge, experience and reality: justifying feminist connections -- Meeting challenges, making choices: Choices and decision: doing a feminist research project