Today, we’re going to read about “Feminist Standpoint Theory” in the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Read through it and answer the following questions: 

• What is a standpoint? 
• What does it mean that “Knowledge is socially situated”?
• Why is it important that research “begin with the lives of the marginalized”?
• What is essentialism? Why is this important to avoid when making claims? 
• What happens to truth and knowledge with feminist standpoint theory? How do we know what we know?