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Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader Intellectual and Political Controversies

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ISBN-10: 0415945011

ISBN-13: 9780415945011

Edition: 2004

Authors: Sandra Harding

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In the mid 1970s and 80s, several feminist theorists began to develop alternatives to the prevailing theories and methods that had dominated academia. This collection brings together the most important scholars who have written in this area, collecting their influential essays.
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List price: $67.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 10/28/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

SANDRA HARDING, a philosopher, is Professor of Education and Women Studies at UCLA. She is author of Whose Science: Whose Knowledge?: Thinking from Women's Lives and The Science Question in Feminism, and editor of Feminism and Methodology: Social Science Issues.

Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Standpoint Theory as a Site of Political, Philosophic, and Scientific Debate
The Logic of a Standpoint
Women's Perspective as a Radical Critique of Sociology
The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism
Feminist Politics and Epistemology: The Standpoint of Women
Hand, Brain, and Heart: A Feminist Epistemology for the Natural Sciences
Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective
Learning from the Outsider Within: The Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought
Rethinking Standpoint Epistemology: What Is "Strong Objectivity?"
Identifying Standpoints
History and Class Consciousness as an "Unfinished Project"
Choosing the Margin as a Space of Radical Openness
Maternal Thinking as a Feminist Standpoint
Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: Toward Feminist Jurisprudence
Labor, Standpoints, and Feminist Subjects
U.S. Third World Feminism: The Theory and Method of Differential Oppositional Consciousness
Controversies, Limits, Revisionings
The Project of Feminist Epistemology: Perspectives from a Nonwestern Feminist
Truth and Method: Feminist Standpoint Theory Revisited
Comment on Hekman's "Truth and Method: Feminist Standpoint Theory Revisited": Truth or Justice?
Comment on Hekman's "Truth and Method: Feminist Standpoint Theory Revisited": Where's the Power?
Comment on Hekman's "Truth and Method: Feminist Standpoint Theory Revisited": Whose Standpoint Needs the Regimes of Truth and Reality?
Comment on Hekman's "Truth and Method: Feminist Standpoint Theory Revisited"
Reply to Hartsock, Collins, Harding, and Smith
Strange Standpoints, or How to Define the Situation for Situated Knowledge
Modern or Postmodern? Natural or Only Social Sciences?
Feminist Epistemologies for Critical Social Theory: From Standpoint Theory to Situated Knowledge
Building Standpoints
Feminist Standpoint as Postmodern Strategy
The Subsistence Perspective
Why Standpoint Matters
Feminism and the Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge
Index