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Stories and standpoint theory

toward a more responsible and defensible thinking from others' lives

Shari Stone-Mediatore

pp. 161-191

Résumé

Some classrooms have broadened their horizons since my classmates and I learned about "primitive" African cultures, presented reports glorifying "the great European explorers," and studied the history of states. In recent years, more teachers and scholars have brought under discussion perspectives excluded from dominant cultural texts. Publications and films have likewise multiplied that narrate the world from the standpoint of people who have struggled against oppression and exploitation. Feminist standpoint theorists, including Sandra Harding, Nancy Hartsock, Dorothy Smith, and Patricia Hill Collins, lend philosophical support to such efforts to integrate marginalized perspectives into the curriculum, for they argue that knowledge that serves the interests of all people, and not just an elite few, must begin by thinking from the standpoint of members of oppressed and exploited groups.

Détails de la publication

Publié dans:

(2003) Reading across borders: storytelling and knowledges of resistance. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Pages: 161-191

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-09764-4_7

Citation complète:

Stone-Mediatore Shari, 2003, Stories and standpoint theory: toward a more responsible and defensible thinking from others' lives. In Reading across borders (161-191). Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.