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=FEMINIST STANDPOI THEORY READER INTELLECTUAL & POLITICAL CONTROVERSIES ge Pp itt & ® B Y SANDRAHARODING The Library of Claremont Schoolo f | Theology 1325 North College Avenue Claremont, CA 91711-3199 (909) 447-2589 The Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader The Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader Intellectual and Political Controversies Edited by Sandra Harding ROUTLEDGE NEW YORK AND LONDON Published in 2004 by Routledge 29 West 35th Street New York, New York 10001 www.routledge-ny.com Published in Great Britain by Routledge 11 New Fetter Lane London EC4P 4EE www.routledge.co.uk Copyright © 2004 by Routledge Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilized in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. IO) QS 7 ee Sho eS Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The feminist standpoint theory reader : intellectual and political controversies / edited by Sandra Harding. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-415-94500-3 (alk. paper)—ISBN 0-415-94501-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Feminist theory. 1. Harding, Sandra G. HQ1190 .F46313 2003 305 .42’01—dc21 2003009900 CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix Permissions e Introduction: Standpoint Theory as a Site of Political, Philosophic, and Scientific Debate SANDRA HARDING I. The Logic of a Standpoint 17 6m Women’s Perspective as a Radical Critique of Sociology Pe! DOROTHY E. SMITH . The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism 35 NANCY C. M. HARTSOCK . Feminist Politics and Epistemology: The Standpoint of Women 55 ALISON M. JAGGAR . Hand, Brain, and Heart: A Feminist Epistemology for the Natural Sciences 67 HILARY ROSE . Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective 81 DONNA HARAWAY . Learning from the Outsider Within: The Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought 103 PATRICIA HILL COLLINS vi ¢ Contents 8. Rethinking Standpoint Epistemology: What Is “Strong Objectivity”? 127 SANDRA HARDING II. Identifying Standpoirts 141 . History and Class Consciousness as an “Unfinished Project” 143 \o FREDRIC JAMESON 10. Choosing the Margin as a Space of Radical Openness 153 bell hooks ql. Maternal Thinking as a Feminist Standpoint 161 SARA RUDDICK 12: Feminism, Marxism, Method,.and the State: Toward Feminist Jurisprudence 169 CATHARINE A. MacKINNON . Labor, Standpoints, and Feminist Subjects 181 KATHI WEEKS . U.S. Third World Feminism: The Theory and Method of Differential Oppositional Consciousness 195 CHELA SANDOVAL III. Controversies, Limits, Revisionings 211 LS: The Project of Feminist Epistemology: Perspectives from a Nonwestern Feminist Zio UMA NARAYAN 16. Truth and Method: Feminist Standpoint Theory Revisited 225 SUSAN HEKMAN . Comment on Hekman’s “Truth and Method: Feminist Standpoint Theory Revisited”: Truth or Justice? 243 NANCY C. M. HARTSOCK 18. Comment on Hekman’s “Truth and Method: Feminist Standpoint Theory Revisited”: Where’s the Power? 247 PATRICIA HILL COLLINS 19. Comment on Hekman’s “Truth and Method: Feminist Standpoint Theory Revisited”: Whose Standpoint Needs the Regimes of Truth and Reality? 200 SANDRA HARDING Contents °@ vii 4 20. Comment on Hekman’s “Truth and Method: Feminist Standpoint Theory Revisited” 263 DOROTHY E. SMITH zi. Reply to Hartsock, Collins, Harding, and Smith 269 SUSAN HEKMAN 22s Strange Standpoints, or How to Define the Situation for Situated Knowledge aT DICK PELS Modern or Postmodern? Natural or Only Social Sciences? 291 23. Feminist Epistemologies for Critical Social Theory: From Standpoint Theory to Situated Knowledge 293 FERNANDO J. GARCIA SELGAS 24. Building Standpoints 309 SARAH BRACKE AND MARIA PUIG pe La BELLACASA 25. Feminist Standpoint as Postmodern Strategy hexW d NANCY J. HIRSCHMANN 26. The Subsistence Perspective 399 MARIA MIES AND VANDANA SHIVA Zi. Why Standpoint Matters 359 ALISON WYLIE 28. Feminism and the Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge 353 JOSEPH ROUSE Index 375 "eas chong Oblctieey > Sbaitiates mea aad SAISORS PARDORS ih hc ENS Se ae st ! a Betws se _ ib git a oon Yt Is. otR n ain ee poe fit NP ie aia ian ous enti : ie ait Be bre: ° | Sef in wee. Sana v3 8 w logan? cf SSa ioy . peat< i tP hen Whe HeOpnacetet eiosni h e tinier :att | snataiedue sit Fa ‘ = or : i Ae vao ov ats ic: fs he hie = 4a hsS eamanN e: as Cianc a an ‘ se Fences ofSf eana ee Ahiaupytge cn Remind an Bae ee ARERR? 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