ABSTRACT
Feminist thought has long been held to be a view-from-everywhere voice in response to the masculinist and hypertheorized view-from-nowhere. But the view from nowhere has its pristine quality not simply because it refuses to admit messy detail; it also refuses to admit into its category of thinkers and knowers women or persons whose worldviews are not Western. There is a great deal in the Sarah Grimk's Letters, and some of it intersects with, or virtually recapitulates, work that was done by preceding thinkers, such as Mary Wollstonecraft. Some of Grimk's most trenchant writings on feminism are in short essays and personal letters to correspondents, and there is the necessity to think of her abolitionist writings in the feminist spirit, especially since the latter are what made both of the Grimk sisters famous in their day. Throughout Grimk's works and letters, voting or jurisprudential reform with respect to women's rights tends to take second place to other sorts of constructions.
