In this Paper I answer the perennial question of non-feminists when confronted with a good idea from a feminist: why call it “feminist”? The answer is that while grounded normative theory can be done by many veins of inquiry the anthropological roots of grounded normative theory in feminist struggle give it a methodological rigor in its attentiveness not only to the power dynamics at the margins, but also to the political challenges associated with the politics of the kitchen table and moving between worlds.
