The belief that established science and scholarship-which have so relentlessly excluded women from their making-are "objective" and "value-free" and that feminist studies are "unscholarly," "biased," and "ideological" dies hard. Yet the fact is that all science, and all scholarship, and all art are ideological; there is no neutrality in culture.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The belief that established science and scholarship-which have so relentlessly excluded women from their making-are "objective" and "value-free" and that feminist studies are "unscholarly," "biased," and "ideological" dies hard. Yet the fact is that all science, and all scholarship, and all art are ideological; there is no neutrality in culture." in the context of "Adrienne Rich, "What Does a Woman Need to Know?" (1979), in Blood, Bread, and Poetry: Selected Prose (1986)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.