"Objectivity" is better served by declaring one's perspectives as honestly and completely as one can, not by pretending that one has no standpoint. Personal experience is a factor in everyone's scholarly and theological work, period. Claiming that one feels something to be true does not make it so, but it is also the case that no one does the work they end up doing or comes to the conclusions that they derive completely abstractly either. Most people are astonished at how dismal things were only a few years ago, in the 1960s in the United States, when women could not establish credit in their own names and almost no women went into advanced training in any field.įeminist reflections have always included the personal location of one's work as a matter of honesty.
Given current conditions of backlash, I have sometimes commented that it is important for those of us who are old enough to remember why the second wave of feminism ever emerged to record our memories. A Wisconsin Farm Girl Who Became a Buddhist Theologian When She Grew Up
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