“Like the postmodernist position…positionality rejects the perfectibility, externality of truth. Instead the positional knower conceives of truth as situated and partial. Truth is situated in that it emerges from particular involvements and relationships. These relationships, not some essential or innate characteristic of the individual, define the individual’s perspective and provide the location for meaning, identity, and political commitment”.

                                                                                                                   Katherine Bartlett, 'Feminist Legal Methods’ (1990) 103 Harvard Law Review 829

In seeking an appropriate feminist epistemology Katherine Bartlett argues for what she calls ‘positionality’ which recognizes the contingency of values and knowledge. Even the political commitment of feminists is provisional and requires critical evaluation and revision.