Key Concepts in Feminist Theory and ResearchSAGE, 12/09/2002 - 222 páginas This original and engaging text explores the core concepts in feminist theory. This up-to-date text addresses the implications of postmodernism and post-structuralism for feminist theorizing. It identifies the challenges of this through the development of ′conceptual literacy′. Introducing conceptual literacy as a pedagogic task, this text facilitates students′ understanding of, for example: - The range and lack of fixity of conceptualizations and meanings of key terms; - The significance of theoretical framework for conceptualization of key terms; - The changing nature of language and the reframing of key terms in research (eg the recent shift from equality to social justice); The text explores these issues through six key concepts in feminist theorizing: equality; difference; choice; care; time; and experience. Each chapter considers the varied ways in which these terms have been conceptualised and the feminist debates about these concepts. Each chapter includes case studies to illustrate the application of these concepts in feminist empirical research, and provides a guide to further reading. This text will be an invaluable tool for students taking courses in feminist theory and research methods, and students across the social sciences who are taking courses concerned with issues of gender. |
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... central issues of meaning, as I see it, in the varied definitions of feminism's key concepts. The further reading has been selected to provide examples of work that can build on the material that has been presented here. Conceptual ...
... central to such conceptualizations and the policy and legislative outcomes of rightsbased equality arguments. In respect of equality as difference I focus on the centrality of motherhood to such conceptualizations and illustrate the ...
... central to economic theory. By way of critique I explore feminist economists' analyses of rational choice theory in terms of its predominant assumption of agentic, rational personhood. I then outline poststructural conceptualizations of ...
... central to feminist politics. Experience also forms the cornerstone of empirical research as the very stuff of narrative and interview. In Chapter 7 I discuss the development of standpoint theory from its original conceptualization in ...
... central to the development of a particular field of theorization and, in consequence, to the political implications of that field. Moi (1999) offers a useful example in this respect when she discusses the sex/gender distinction that ...
Índice
1 | |
11 | |
33 | |
Chapter 3 Difference | 57 |
Chapter 4 Choice | 83 |
Chapter 5 Care | 106 |
Chapter 6 Time | 130 |
Chapter 7 Experience | 151 |
Chapter 8 Developing Conceptual Literacy | 174 |
References | 197 |
Index | 215 |