Chapter 17: Gendered Consciousness
1. Smith’s Perspective: Standpoint Theory
A. Not Theory – Method!
(1.) A method of inquiry
(2.) Practices of power
(3.) Theory must tell the actual story
B. Facts and Texts: The New Materialism
(1.) Text
a. Written words or symbols
b. Physical medium
c. Practices of writing and reading
(2.) Facts are mediated by texts
2. Concepts and Theory: The Standpoint of Women
A. The standpoint
(1.)
Knowledge of the oppressed
(2.)
Grounded in physicality of real life
(3.)
The assumption of reciprocity of perspectives
B. Sociology and the Relations of Ruling
(1.) Experience as textual reality
(2.) Sociology that cannot speak subjectively
C. The Fault Line
(1.) Knowledge produced in social sciences
(2.) Knowledge produced by women’s experiences
D. Standpoint and the Text-Mediating Power
(1.) Actual lived experience and texts
(2.) Relations of the ruling and texts
(3.) Social scientific inquiry and texts
(4.) The lived experience
(5.) Institutional ethnography
a. Impermanent concepts
b. Translation of objective to subjective experience
(6.) Relations of ruling
(7.) Interpretation of feminist/standpoint texts