Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: standpoint theory as a site of political, philosophic and scientific debate / Sandra Harding -- Women's perspective as a radical critique of sociology / Dorothy e. Smith -- The feminist standpoint: developing the ground for a specifically feminist historical materialsim / Nancy C.M. Hartsock -- Feminist politics and epistemology: the standpoint of women / Alison M. Jaggar -- Hand, brain, and heart: a feminist epistemology for the natural sciences / Hilary rose -- Situated knowledges: the science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective / Donna Haraway -- Learning from the outsider within: the sociological significance of Black feminist thought / Patricia Hill Collins -- Rethinking standpoint epistemology: what is "strong objectivity"? / Sandra Harding -- History and class consciousness as an "unfinished project" / Fredric Jameson -- Choosing the margin as a space of radical openness / bell hooks -- Maternal thinking as a feminist standpoint / Sara Ruddick -- Feminism, Marxism, method, and the State: toward feminist jurisprudence / catharine a. MacKinnon -- Labor, standpoints, and feminist subjects / Kathi Weeks -- U.S. third World feminism: the theory and method of differential oppositional consciousness / Chela Sandoval -- The project of feminist epistemology: perspectives from a nonwestern feminist/ Um Narayan -- Truth and method: feminist standpoint theory revisited/ Susan Hekman -- Comment on Hekman's "Truth and method: feminist standpoint theory revisited": truth or justice? / Nancy C.M. Hartsock -- Comment on Hekman's "Truth and method: feminist standpoint theory revisited": where's the power?/ Patricia HIll Collins --

Comment on Hekman's "Truth and method: feminist standpoint theory revisited": whose standpoint needs the regimes of truth and reality?/ Sandra Harding -- comment on Hekman's "Truth and method: feminist standpoint theory revisted"/ Dorothy E. smith -- Reply to Hartsock, Collins, Harding, and Smith / Susan Hekman -- Strange standpoints, or how to define the situation for situated knowledge/ Dick Pels -- Feminist epistemologies for critical social theory: from standpoint theory to situated knowledge / Fernando J. Carcia Selgas -- Building Standpoint / Sarah Bracke and maria Puig de la Bellacasa -- Feminist standpoint as postmodern strategy / Nancy J. Hirschmann -- The subsistence perspective / Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva -- Why standpoint matters / Alison Wylie -- Feminism and the social construction of scientific knowledge / Joseph Rouse.