The Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader: Intellectual and Political Controversies

ISBN-13: 9780415945011 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 379 str.

Sandra Harding

Opis

In the mid-1970s and early 1980s, several feminist theorists began developing alternatives to the traditional methods of scientific research. The result was a new theory, now recognized as Standpoint Theory, which caused heated debate and radically altered the way research is conducted. The Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader collects the most important essays on the subject as well as more recent works that bring the topic up-to-date. Leading feminist scholar and one of the founders of Standpoint Theory, Sandra Harding, brings together scholars such as Dorothy Smith, Donna Haraway, Patricia Hill Collins, Nancy Hartsock and Hilary Rose - to not only showcase the most influential essays on the topic but to also highlight subsequent developments of these approaches from a wide variety of disciplines and intellectual and political positions. The Reader should be useful reading for feminist scholars.

Recenzje

"Harding's work on standpoint theory has been groundbreaking." -- Alison Jagger, author of Living with Contradictions: Controversies in Feminist Social Ethics
"Standpoint theory has a very wide impact, from the humanities to the natural sciences.In bringing together a variety of standpoint literatures and demonstrating how important these lines of thought have become, this is a very strong collection." -- Nancy Harstock, Professor of Political Science, University of Washington
"An essential resource for feminist theorists, researchers, women's studies students, and activists alike. This excellent anthology offers a rich interdisciplinary assessment of the impact of feminist standpoint theory in diverse fields and includes responses to postmodern and postcolonial challenges to standpoint epistemology." -- Nancy A. Naples, author of Feminism and Method
"I can think of no other volume that covers this important area in feminist philosophy so well. It brings together the classics of the past with the best of the present. This is the place to go for standpoint theory." -- Linda Nicholson, author of The Play of Reason: From the Modern to the Postmodern
"The Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader tracks, translates and augments several decades of classics and au courant contributions to what is perhaps the most significant theoretical discourse developed by interdisciplinary feminist theory." -- Judith Stacey is the author of Brave New Families: Stories of Domestic Upheaval in Late-Twentieth-Century America
"An invaluable book to read and reflect on-to teach in classrooms where education is seen as the practice of freedom." -- Chandra Talpade Mohanty, author of Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity

O autorze

Sandra Harding is Professor of Education and Women's Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and is currently the co-editor of Signs. Her work has won the Jessie Bernard Award from the American Sociological Association, the Critics Choice Award from AERA, and the Choice Outstanding Book Award. A pioneer in the development of Standpoint Theory, she is the author of numerous books, including The Science Question in Feminism and The "Racial" Economy of Science.