The Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader : Intellectual and Political Controversies (Paperback)

Acknowledgments1. Introduction: Standpoint Theory as a Site of Political, Philosophic, and Scientific Debate, Sandra HardingI: The Logic of a StandpointIntroduction2. Women's Perspective as a Radical Critique of Sociology, Dorothy E. Smith3. The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism, Nancy C. M. Hartsock4. Feminist Politics and Epistemology: The Standpoint of Women, Alison M. Jaggar5. Hand, Brain, and Heart: A Feminist Epistemology for the Natural Sciences, Hilary Rose6. Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective, Donna Haraway7. Learning from the Outsider Within: The Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins8. Rethinking Standpoint Epistemology: What is Strong Objectivity?, Sandra HardingII. Identifying StandpointsIntroduction9. History and Class Consciousness as an Unfinished Project, Fredric Jameson10. Choosing the Margin as a Space of Radical Openness, bell hooks11. Maternal Thinking as a Feminist Standpoint, Sara Ruddick12. Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State: Toward Feminist Jurisprudence, Catharine A. MacKinnon13. Labor, Standpoints, and Feminist Subjects, Kathi Weeks14. U.S. Third World Feminism: The Theory and Method of Differential Oppositional Consciousness, Chela SandovalIII. Controversies, Limits, RevisioningsIntroduction15. The Project of Feminist Epistemology: Perspectives from a Nonwestern Feminist, Uma Narayan16. Truth and Method: Feminist Standpoint Theory Revisited, Susan Hekman17. Comment on Hekman's Truth and Method: Feminist Standpoint Theory Revisited: Truth or Justice?, Nancy C. M. Hartsock18. Comment on Hekman's Truth and Method: Feminist Standpoint Theory Revisited: Where's the Power?, Patricia Hill Collins19. Comment on Hekman's Truth and Method: Feminist Standpoint Theory Revisited: Whose Standpoint Needs the Regimes of Truth and Reality?, Sandra Harding20. Comment on Hekman's Truth and Method: Feminist Standpoint Theory Revisited, Dorothy E. Smith21. Reply to Hartsock, Collins, Harding, and Smith, Susan Hekman22. Strange Standpoints, or: How to Define the Situation for Situated Knowledge, Dick PelsIV. Modern or Postmodern? Natural or Only Social Sciences?Introduction23. Feminist Epistemologies for Critical Social Theory: From Standpoint Theory to Situated Knowledge, Fernando J. García Selgas24. Building Standpoints, Sarah Bracke and Maria Puig de la Bellacasa25. Feminist Standpoint as Postmodern Strategy, Nancy J. Hirschmann26. The Subsistence Perspective, Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva27. Why Standpoint Matters, Alison Wylie28. Feminism and the Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge, Joseph RouseIndex