Nancy Hartsock

Nancy Hartsock (born 1943) is a feminist philosopher. She is known for her work in feminist epistemology and standpoint theory, especially the essay "The Feminist Standpoint", which also integrates Melanie Klein's theories on psychoanalysis and the Oedipal crisis. Her standpoint theory derives from Marxism, which claims that the proletariat has a distinctive perspective on social relations and that only this perspective reveals the truth. She draws an analogy between the industrial labor of the proletariat and the domestic labor of women to show that women can also have a distinctive standpoint.

Hartsock is currently a professor of political science at the University of Washington.^[1]

Books

• Money, Sex, and Power: Toward a Feminist Historical Materialism. Northeastern University Press 1986
• The Feminist Standpoint Revisited. Westview Press 1999, ISBN 0-8133-1558-1
• Postmodernism And Political Change. Routledge 1999
• Building Feminist Theory (co-editor)

Notes

1. ^ "Political Science Department, University of Washington". http://www.polisci.washington.edu/directory/faculty/Faculty/faculty_hartsock.html. Retrieved 2011-01-12. 

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