chapter 29: feminist standpoint theory (FST)

Question 1

feminist standpoint theory (FST)

Answer 1

a framework that highlights women’s knowledge and experiences as central to understanding and challenging power structures for a more just society

Question 2

outsider within

Answer 2

a person in a normally marginalized social position who has gained access to a more privileged location

Question 3

partial

Answer 3

recognition that no one has a complete view of the social hierarchy

Question 4

accuracy

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the ability to see more than what’s available to one’s own specific social location

Question 5

voice

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the ability to project to others who we are and what we’re all about

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standpoint

Answer 6

an achieved position based on a social location that lends an interpretative aspect to a person’s
life

Question 7

situated knowledges

Answer 7

what anyone knows is grounded in context and circumstance

Question 8

sexual division of labor

Answer 8

allocation of work on the basis of sex

Question 9

essentialism

Answer 9

the belief that all women are essentially the same, all men are essentially the same, and the two differ from each other