Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: Friedrich Nietzsche once remarked that "only that which has no history is definable" (1998, II sect.13).Standpoint theories do have a history, at least back to the work of Dorothy Smith (1974, 1984), Patricia Hill Collins (1986, 1990) and Nancy Hartsock (1983), and arguably further to second wave feminism more generally, or even to Marx and Hegel.Their collective identity as standpoint theories has itself been contested amid subsequent criticisms, responses, and revisions.Yet the contested history of standpoint theories is surely an indispensable resource for feminist epistemology.The importance of that history would not diminish even if it overturned characteristic concepts and tenets of standpoint theories.I shall therefore address two
Source: Hypatia
Author: Joseph Rouse
Institution: Wesleyan University
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2021275866