| Popis: |
In this chapter, the author explores some of the epistemological consequences of claiming that women's lives differ systematically and structurally from those of men. She argues that on the basis of the structures that define women's activity as contributors to subsistence and as mothers, the sexual division of labor, one could begin, though not complete, the construction of a feminist standpoint on which to ground a specifically feminist historical materialism. A feminist standpoint picks out and amplifies the liberatory possibilities contained in that experience. In addressing the institutionalized sexual division of labor, the author proposes to lay aside the important differences among women and instead to search for central commonalities across race and class boundaries. At the same time, she recognizes that the effort to uncover a feminist standpoint assumes that there are some things common to all women's lives in Western class societies. |
