The Feminist Standpoint Revisited, And Other Essays

Nancy C.M. Hartsock

Introduction -- Political Movements and Political Theories -- Political Change: Two Perspectives on Power -- Fundamental Feminism: Process and Perspective -- Staying Alive -- Difference and Domination in the Women’s Movement: The Dialectic of Theory and Practice -- Reoccupying Marxism as Feminism -- Objectivity and Revolution: The Unity of Observation and Outrage in Marxist Theory -- The Feminist Standpoint: Developing the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical Materialism -- Louis Althusser’s Structuralist Marxism: Political Clarity and Theoretical Distortions -- Structuralism, Poststructuralism, and Politics -- The Kinship Abstraction in Feminist Theory -- Gayle Rubin: The Abstract Determinism of the Kinship System -- Postmodernism and Political Change -- The Feminist Standpoint Revisited -- Afterword