This investigation concludes that:
A challenge of the emerging alternative paradigms consists of confronting the “regime” of power in the discourse and ways of knowing that lack consistency with recent discoveries regarding epistemology.
Feminism suggests that humans must modify the dynamics of power relations of domination and control so that the perspectives, lives, and worlds of all can have a dignified place in the planet. This would require the development of new negotiating capacities that humanity has not yet envisioned.
What this work intends to make visible are the experiences, science and cultures of women, and to trace the negative impact of its blockage in past centuries. While the research focuses on women’s contributions, it recognizes that other actors, such as indigenous peoples and Third World cultures have also contributed alternatives.
In addition to exploring the complex origins of discrimination and invisibilization of women's experiences and science, the research also examines the multidimensional consequences of efforts to build alternative paradigms.
From a feminist epistemological perspective, the challenge of the components of the Newtonian Paradigm has to be undertaken as a “network” process, with the interaction of all the economic, cultural, social, economic, and political processes in the evolution of humanity on the planet. Given the overlapping origins of the Newtonian Paradigm with patriarchy and also capitalism, it is not possible to deconstruct one without deconstructing the other. The solution has to be viewed as a network.
For that reason another conclusion of this research is that if we do not challenge the patriarchal bases underlying our social-scientific praxis, it is impossible to transcend the Newtonian Paradigm, much less build new paradigms.
