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Nancy C. M. Hartsock (1943–2015) was a professor of Political Science and Women Studies (now Gender, Women, and Sexuality Studies) at the University of Washington from 1984 to 2009.

Personal life and education

Hartsock was born in 1943 in a Methodist lower-middle class family, in Ogden, Utah. She attended Wellesley College. While there, Hartsock was involved in the Wellesley Civil Rights Group. This group provided tutoring in Roxbury and Boston, Massachusetts, as well as working with the Boston NAACP. which also integrated Melanie Klein's theories on psychoanalysis and the Oedipal crisis. Her standpoint theory derived from Marxism, which claims that the proletariat has a distinctive perspective on social relations and that only this perspective reveals the truth. She drew 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.

The Feminist Standpoint Revisited and Other Essays was then published in 1998.

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  • Sisterhood is Powerful. Short entry explaining the remarks that professors made about the Woman's Caucus in 1970

Journal articles

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References

Further reading

  • Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2004). Nancy Hartsock, Allison Jagger, Hilary Rose, Sandra Harding. "Feminist Standpoint Theory"[https://www.iep.utm.edu/fem-stan/]
  • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy First published Wednesday Oct 19, 2005; substantive revision Thursday Jul 7, 2016. "Feminist Perspectives on Power"
  • Nancy C.M. Hartsock Papers - Pembroke Center Archives, Brown University