THE EIGHT CLAIMS OF THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK BY SANDRA HARDING

---

The structure of this research was based around Sandra Harding's (Professor of Social Sciences and Comparative Education) eight claims of theoretical framework for Feminist Standpoint theory. Morritt believed that this theoretical framework would help us understand the unique experiences of women with computer based technologies. These eight claims form the basis of the structure for this study:

1. Women's different lives have been erroneously devalued and neglected as starting points for research and as the generators of evidence or against knowledge claims

2.Women are valuable strangers to the social order

3.Women's oppression gives them fewer interest in ignorance

4.Women's perspective is from the other side of the "battle of the sexes" that women and men engage in on a daily basis

5.Women's perspective is from everyday life

6.Women's perspective comes from mediating ideological dualisms: nature versus culture

7.Women, and especially women researchers, are outsiders within

8.This is the right time in history

HOME

Nicole La Roche Feminist Perspectives on Computer Based Technologies Communication Studies Program, Social Science Division York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M3J 1P3