Nancy Hartsock wrote one of the foundational texts of standpoint epistemology - feminist standpoint theory. Would she be classed as a "Terf", I wonder, and should there be campaigns for the exclusion of her work from the Academy? Let's see.
I'm not agreeing with it! But, for what it's worth, Hartsock starts her piece by explicitly stating she's constructing an "ideal-type" (in the Weberian sense). She knows at the level of individual women there's a lot of variability.
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Okay, just wanted to make sure. Last time I gave someone the benefit of the doubt on something like this, by the time I realized where they were going, the fact I can type 80 wpm came in real handy.
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Well, for what it's worth, I'm not entirely convinced Hartsock's "ideal type" move actually gets her out of the bind you flag up. There's too much variability in the experience of being a woman to be easily waved away. It's one of the criticisms of standpoint theory generally.
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Yup. And like, I'd like to give her the benefit of the doubt that she just worded things in a way to conveys those things as universal without meaning it that way, but I'm not sure the rest holds up if you grant that.
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