Feminist Theory, Music Theory, and the Mind/Body Problem

Abstract

not twenty years ago-that each of us speaks for sure only for herself, each of us from a unique situation born of multiple identities layered each on the other-class, race, gender, sexuality, ethnicity, religious beliefs, and so forth. Further, it is understood that each of us speaks from a situation that is partly defined by our listeners or readers: every communication is the acting out of a relationship, in which our identity of the moment is partly determined by the relationship we have or seek to have with others. As eloquently elaborated by Donna Haraway in her now-classic essay Situated Knowledges, feminist epistemology assumes that all knowledge claims begin life as partial knowledges, determined by the situation of the knower; and that they develop into more generally useful knowledge claims as the result of conversation among situated