Feminist Standpoint Analysis
Feminist standpoint analysis is a critical epistemology and analytic strategy holding that all knowledge is socially situated, and that beginning inquiry from the everyday lives of marginalized people — historically women — yields a more complete and less distorted account of social reality than the supposedly neutral view from dominant positions. Developed by Nancy Hartsock, Dorothy Smith, and Sandra Harding in the 1980s, it argues that the marginalized see both the dominant order and its underside, and that this doubled vision, when methodically developed into an achieved standpoint, can ground a 'strong objectivity' superior to claims of value-free detachment.
Source record
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- Harding, S. (1991). Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? Thinking from Women's Lives. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY. · ISBN 9780801497469
- Smith, D. E. (1987). The Everyday World as Problematic: A Feminist Sociology. Northeastern University Press, Boston. · ISBN 9781555530365
- Hartsock, N. C. M. (1983). The feminist standpoint: Developing the ground for a specifically feminist historical materialism. In S. Harding & M. B. Hintikka (Eds.), Discovering Reality (pp. 283–310). Reidel, Dordrecht. · DOI 10.1007/0-306-48017-4_15
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