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Feminism engaged discussions where political struggle and knowledge production are intimately related, questioning dis/embodiment, truth and method in the academy. This essay discusses in particular feminist standpoint thinking and the strategy of reclaiming historically silenced women’s voices. We discuss how this strategy has been put to work, and how it relates to critical questions of experience and power. We rely on the figure of Antigone to think through some of the issues at stake, and more in particular to trace how contemporary claims of women acting in accordance with God’s law (e.g. in the headscarf debates) renders the situated character of knowledge more complex.