Situated Knowledge

Donna Haraway questions whether writing about feminist theory can ever be objective, even if science is used as the factual basis for rationality.  On one side of feminist discourse argues that objectivity cannot be acheived through the scientific method because of inherently existing stakes of power.  Yet, people whole-heartedly and unconditionally trust that science and technology are distant from emotional and social preoccupations.  Haraway states that feminist theorists insist that Marxism is the ultimate example of scientific objectivity.  However, failure for feminist theorists to question the relevance of Marxism in objectivity silences them, and prevents the drive of creative knowledge.  Marxism, like capitalism and colonialism were reinforced by the widely accepted belief that they were scientifically objective.  And yet, the reliance on vision throughout history has allowed people to question the true objectivity of the systems of oppression.  The stakes that oppressive systems maintain in knowledge and what is understood to be objective forms feminist's situated knowledges.