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This paper makes two pleas; firstly for more research on feminist inspired information systems (IS) and secondly for the IS mainstream to stop ignoring such research as it is highly relevant to its emancipatory ideals. With respect to the emerging critical or emancipatory school of IS, feminist philosophy and, in particular, feminist epistemology is used to examine the difficulties of the positivist/anti-positivist position. In addition, it is argued that the liberal version of emancipation built on the anti-positivist position adopted by critical IS is unlikely to offer true emancipation and may have an opposite effect as it leaves unexamined crucial power structures particularly in relation to women’s live
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Adam, A. (2000). Information Systems. In: Balka, E., Smith, R. (eds) Women, Work and Computerization. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing, vol 44. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35509-2_13
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