Family therapy's neglect of social context as a factor in its continuing distortion of women's issues has led feminist critics to wonder if systems‐based psychotherapy truly serves women. Rather than heralding the demise of family therapy, however, the feminist critique is here taken to open up concerns central to the epistemological discussion underway in the field. At first, these have to do with the functions of “punctuation,”“boundary” and “closure” in systemic epistemology. Later, the central question becomes that of the place given to context in systems epistemology generally, as well as family therapy in particular. Several implications of a more lively interest in context for family therapy's work are explored. These are discussed with respect to women's issues, clinical epistemology, and the challenge to raise novel questions in family therapy.

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Gurman, A. S. & Knudson, R. M. Behavioral marriage therapy: I. A psychodynamic systems analysis and critique. Gurman, A. S. & Kniskern, D. P. Behavioral marriage therapy: II. Empirical perspective. Jacobson, N. & Weiss, R. L. Behavioral marriage therapy: III. The contents of Gurman, et al., may be hazardous to our health. Gurman, A. S., Knudson, R. M. & Kniskern, D. P. Behavioral marriage therapy: IV. Take two aspirin and call us in the morning.