| The Feminist Standpoint Revisited In 1983, Nancy Hartsock published her landmark work,
Money Sex, and Power: Toward a Feminist Historical Materialism,
which defined her powerful construction of the feminist standpoint.
Now, 15 years later, four scholars build on Hartsock's pioneering
venture and further examine the current debates in Politics and
Feminist Standpoint Theories, edited by Sally J. Kenney, PhD, and
Helen Kinsella, MA.
Addressing feminist issues involving epistemology, identity, and
politics, Politics and Feminist Standpoint Theories provides a comprehensive
account of how feminist theorists have used and developed Hartsock's
feminist standpoint. These essays examine the theories of Dorothy
Smith, Patricia Hill Collins, and Sandra Harding. Specifically,
Politics and Feminist Standpoint Theories explores such topics as:
- New shifts in Nancy Hartsock's feminist standpoint epistemology
- Standpoint theory's refutation of empiricist accounts of knowledge
- Identify (race, class, gender, sex, and nation) as a political
and interpretive category
- Weaknesses in postmodern critiques of standpoint theory
- The standpoint's future
Contents
- Introduction (Sally J. Kenney)
- Nancy Hartsock's Standpoint Theory: From Content to "Concrete
Multiplicity" (Katherine Welton)
- Where Standpoint Stands Now (Catherine Hundleby)
- Counteridentification or Counterhegemony?: Transforming Feminist
Standpoint Theory (Catherine M. O'Leary)
- Feminist Standpoint as Postmodern Strategy (Nancy J. Hirschmann)
- Standpoint Theories for the Next Century (Nancy C. M. Hartsock)
- Reference Notes Included
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