The Relevance of Lived Experience in the Social Sciences

I want to hold on to the possibility of my saying as a woman. Like that feels like an important thing to say in certain contexts or an important contribution to have, even though I take really seriously the insights of intersectionality. There are certain aspects of my identity as womanhood that are undeniably bound up with other privileges that I can't even fully understand and that don't map on to the experience of other women. Yeah. And what concept that philosophers have used for thinking about this without falling back onto the dangers of essentialism is just to be strategically essentialist about those categories... Even if you reserve the right also to contest your relationship to the category that you just invoked at a future date

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