May 31, 2018
What I find valuable in the tradition of standpoint theory, then, is its commitment to make connections among what we are, what we do, and the larger framework of social relations we call totality; its interest in the subversive possibilities of women’s laboring practices; and its efforts to assemble a collective feminist subject that is based on and dedicated to pursuing some of these possibilities.
Kathi Weeks, from Constituting Feminist Subjects (Part of Verso’s Feminist Classics series, coming out this summer!)