Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective

1988/01/01 by Donna Haraway · 1 voice · 289 citations
Social Sciences · #Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice #Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies

paper · doi:10.2307/3178066

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• "Situated knowledges are about communities, not about isolated individual" (Haraway, 1988) https://doi.org/10.2307/3178066 [bsky, 2 points, 0 comments]