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Added by: Olivia Maegaard NielsenAbstract:
Academic and activist feminist inquiry has repeatedly tried to come to terms with the question of what we might mean by the curious and inescapable term "objectivity." We have used a lot of toxic ink and trees processed into paper decrying what they have meant and how it hurts us. The imagined "they" constitute a kind of invisible conspiracy of masculinist scientists and philosophers replete with grants and laboratories. The imagined "we" are the embodied others, who are not allowed not to have a body, a finite point of view, and so an inevitably disqualifying and polluting bias in any discussion of consequence outside our own little circles, where a "mass"-subscription journal might reach a few thousand
readers composed mostly of science haters.Comment: A classic in feminist, postmodernist, and social epistemologies. In this text, Haraway introduces the concept 'situated knowledge', which plays a big role in many philosophical subfields, especially in standpoint epistemologies. It would be a great introductory text in seminars on feminist epistemology or as a complimentary critique in introductory epistemology courses.
Haraway, Donna. Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective
1988, Feminist Studies 14(3), pp. 575-599
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