WOMENST 1AA3 Lecture 5: Lecture 5
2 Feb 2019
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The problem of speaking for others: there is a growing recognition that where one speaks from affects the meaning and truth of what one says and this one cannot assume an ability transcend one"s location. In other worlds a speakers location (social location/identity) has an epistemically significant impact on that speaker"s claims and can serve either to authorize or disuthorize one"s speech: only [is] location epistemically salient, but certain privileged locations discursively dangerous. In particular, the practice of privileged persons speaking for or on behalf of less privileged persons actually resulted (in many cases) in increasing or reinforcing oppression of the group spoken for .
