GSFS 300 Lecture 7: GSFS300L7

• School: McGill University
• Department: Gender, Sexuality, Feminist, and Social Justice Studies
• Course: GSFS 300
• Professor: Mary Bunch

Document Summary

Readings: patricia hill collins, learning from the outsider within: the sociological. Signi cance of black feminist thought : sandra harding, borderlands epistemologies . Material to cover: standpoint theory / epistemology - a working de nition (sandra harding, early development (nancy harstock, marxist roots. Summary: assumptions of standpoint theory: early feminist standpoint. We stand corrected: partial and situated knowledge, methodological. Standpoint theory: goes beyond empiricism to account for knowledge creation, epistemic importance of social location and political commitment. 24-02-2017: lends an interpretive aspect to a person"s life. Standpoint epistemology: a framework for understanding systems of power, concerned with conceptual practices of power, rather than individual or subgroup biases. Nancy harstock: the feminist standpoint: developing the ground for a speci cally feminist historical materialism. , drew on hungarian marxist george lukacs. Making an analogy between the industrial labor of the proletariat and the domestic labor of women.