Abstract
The alliance between feminism and postmodernism1 in American academy has brought about a revolution in feminist epistemology. The early feminist epistemology of unmasking, of sorting through appearances to get to underneath, has been discredited as essentialist.2 Feminist epistemology was an attempt to respond to this accusation by using social location as a standpoint from which at least local and situated knowledge could be articulated.3 More recently, many feminists have taken on epistemology of simulacrum. Here the real plays a part only as that which dissolves into appearances themselves. Behind appearances, if there were such a place, would be only an abyss of absence. With this revolution in feminist epistemology comes a wholesale dis-
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