oh. of course they ignored it. part of the deal is that they also argued science itself was imperialist, racist, sexist, etc. In other words, the antidote to ideologically driven science was not more science but questioning the claims about science being the answer at all. people would have guffawed if i'd countered with scientific socialism as the antidote. i don't have the book handy, but alison jaggar's _human nature and social theory_ has a good outline of the feminist critique of scientific socialism. dayum. i wish i wasn't in the midst of major household renovations or i'd dig it out and read it again. jaggar's an excellent socialist feminist and perhaps you can appreciate her criticisms of scientific socialism. her goal isn't to eviserate it but to criticize it and move it forward -- if that makes sense.
btw, the "school of thought" in this instance was any one particular school but a confluence of ideas in feminist theory, anthropology, cultural studies, sociology, philosophy, etc. etc. and even then it was a strand of thought _within_ feminist, with cultural studies, within sociology, etc. etc.
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