Feminist Standpoint Theory Reader

Leading feminist scholar and one of the founders of Standpoint Theory, Sandra Harding brings together the biggest names in the field--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 interrogations and developments of these approaches from a wide variety of disciplines and intellectual and political positions.

"Harding's work on standpoint theory has been groundbreaking." -- Alison Jagger, author of Living withContradictions: 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 Modernto 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 BraveNew Families: Stories of Domestic Upheaval inLate-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 FeminismWithout Borders: Decolonizing Theory, PracticingSolidarity

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 inFeminism and The "Racial" Economy of Science.