QUESTIONS TO SHARPEN YOUR FOCUS

1		What is common to the standpoints of women, African Americans, the poor, and homosexuals that may provide them with a less false view of the way society works?
2		How could we test the claim that strong objectivity from women's lives provides a more accurate view of the world than knowledge generated by a predominantly male research establishment?
3		Other feminists have criticized Harding and Wood for suggesting that men can learn to view the world from the standpoint of women. How might men do this? From your perspective, can a man be a feminist?
4		Standpoint epistemology draws on insights from Marxism, symbolic interactionism, and postmodernism. Based on what you've read in this chapter, which of these intellectual influences do you see as strongest? Why?