ABSTRACT
These three issues are distinct but interrelated. Women’s opportunities to influence the ideas and interpretations that claim to characterize and assess the real world have been restricted by the limitations of women’s power and decisional authority in that world. On the other side, the tolerance and survival of material inequalities are aided by distortions in theory, which tend to obscure the nature and extent of that deprivation as well as its causation. Indeed, even our comprehension and awareness of material deprivation is inevitably linked with the theoretical framework employed to understand and interpret the world.
