The feminist standpoint theory reader : intellectual and political controversies / edited by Sandra Harding.
"In the mid-1970s and early 1980s, several feminist theorists began developing alternatives to the traditional methods of scientific research. The result was a new theory, now recognized as Standpoint Theory, which caused heated debate and radically altered the way research is conducted. The Fe...
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Standpoint Theory as a Site of Political, Philosophic, and Scientific Debate / Sandra Harding
- 2. Women's Perspective as a Radical Critique of Sociology / Dorothy E. Smith
- 3. The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism / Nancy C. M. Hartsock
- 4. Feminist Politics and Epistemology: The Standpoint of Women / Alison M. Jaggar
- 5. Hand, Brain, and Heart: A Feminist Epistemology for the Natural Sciences / Hilary Rose
- 6. Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective / Donna Haraway
- 7. Learning from the Outsider Within: The Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought / Patricia Hill Collins
- 8. Rethinking Standpoint Epistemology: What Is "Strong Objectivity"? / Sandra Harding
- 9. History and Class Consciousness as an "Unfinished Project" / Fredric Jameson
- 10. Choosing the Margin as a Space of Radical Openness / Bell Hooks
- 11. Maternal Thinking as a Feminist Standpoint / Sara Ruddick
- 12. Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: Toward Feminist Jurisprudence / Catharine A. MacKinnon
- 13. Labor, Standpoints, and Feminist Subjects / Kathi Weeks
- 14. U.S. Third World Feminism: The Theory and Method of Differential Oppositional Consciousness / Chela Sandoval
- 15. The Project of Feminist Epistemology: Perspectives from a Nonwestern Feminist / Uma Narayan
- 16. Truth and Method: Feminist Standpoint Theory Revisited / Susan Hekman
- 17. Comment on Hekman's "Truth and Method: Feminist Standpoint Theory Revisited": Truth or Justice? / Nancy C. M. Hartsock
- 18. Comment on Hekman's "Truth and Method: Feminist Standpoint Theory Revisited": Where's the Power? / Patricia Hill Collins
- 19. Comment on Hekman's "Truth and Method: Feminist Standpoint Theory Revisited": Whose Standpoint Needs the Regimes of Truth and Reality? / Sandra Harding
- 20. Comment on Hekman's "Truth and Method: Feminist Standpoint Theory Revisited" / Dorothy E. Smith
- 21. Reply to Hartsock, Collins, Harding, and Smith / Susan Hekman
- 22. Strange Standpoints, or How to Define the Situation for Situated Knowledge / Dick Pels
- 23. Feminist Epistemologies for Critical Social Theory: From Standpoint Theory to Situated Knowledge / Fernando J. Garcia Selgas
- 24. Building Standpoints / Sarah Bracke and Maria Puig de la Bellacasa
- 25. Feminist Standpoint as Postmodern Strategy / Nancy J. Hirschmann
- 26. The Subsistence Perspective / Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva
- 27. Why Standpoint Matters / Alison Wylie
- 28. Feminism and the Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge / Joseph Rouse.