From the Margins: Women’s Standpoint as a Method of Inquiry in the Social Sciences

Abstract

The social sciences are systematically developed forms of knowledge that are in and of the ruling relations and conform to its objectifying order. This paper proposes the creation of a sociology that puts into question, at the outset, the objectifications that universalize and generalize discourse and ruling across local settings and localized consciousness of actual people at the margins and translates the subtexts of gender, race and class into ’knowledge’ as a model of inquiry from the standpoint of women.