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It ties social location very closely to epistemic position, arguing that social locations not only vary from an epistemological point of view, but that some social locations offer the potential to be more epistemically reliable than others.
An individual's social locations consists of her ascribed social identities (gender, race, sexual orientation, ethnicity, caste, kinship status, etc).
The second aspect is knowledge: How people comprehend what they see based on their mental models and their social locations.
Transnational feminists are careful to point out that although globalizing processes affect everyone, they affect different women very differently, based on their geographical and social locations.
The model does not deny that knowers have identities and social locations, but it does deny that these are relevant features to include in epistemic assessments.
She contends that feminist empiricism would benefit from adopting feminist standpoint theory's understanding of diversity i.e., that it is the diversity of social locations rather than diversity of interests and values that are what contribute to objectivity.
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