ABSTRACT
The subject of this chapter picks up two themes from the previous chapters: the epistemological significance of experience and women’s perspectives of Chapter 4, and second, from Chapter 5, the way that inclusions and exclusions —acceptance and rejection-shape self-identity, in the context of structures of power such as gender, social class or race. The first theme appears as a logical dilemma for feminists about how much trust to place in emotion. The second theme appears as the significance of the way that different groups of people come to understand themselves in terms of their emotions and rationality. The two themes interweave to create a theory of a politics of emotion and of a politics of rationality.
