ABSTRACT
Feminist thinking about questions of multiplicity and difference features, both theoretically and methodologically, an emotionally charged and historically persistent striving for unity and centralisation. In spite of widespread rhetoric about the necessity of acknowledging differences, on both an ontological and epistemological level, the main tendency is integrationist (see Halley 2006). This emphasis is evident, for instance, in the ongoing discussion of crisis and paralysis within the history of feminist thinking: an impressive amount of scholarship deals with controversies, disagreements, and different ways of theorizing, attempting to ‘match’ together differing standpoints and opinions, and often to create some sort of synthesis of oppositional views.1
