Liz Starkey (Ed.). (1990). Feminist Praxis: Research, Theory and Epistemology in Feminist Sociology, Patti Lather. (1991). Getting Smart: Feminist Research and Pedagogy with/in the Postmodern, Sandra Harding. (1991). Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?: Thinking from Women's Lives, Mary Margaret Forrow & Judith A. Cook (Eds). (1991). Beyond Methodology: Feminist Scholarship as Lived Research

1992 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 394-400 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karla Henderson
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Research ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Sandra Harding ◽  
Feminist Sociology ◽  
Women's Lives

scholarly journals Feminist Research in Rwanda: Challenges and Importance

10.5130/aag.c ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 27-42
Author(s):  
Anita Clair Fellman
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Poverty Alleviation ◽  
Feminist Research ◽  
Recent History ◽  
Gender Analysis ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Research Topics ◽  
Post Conflict ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Gender Policies

The building of a feminist scholarly tradition, never easy, is especially challenging in a traumatised, post-conflict nation like Rwanda with under-resourced young universities. So much about Rwandan women’s lives, past and present, has still to be learned, but pressing needs for economic development and poverty alleviation help determine research topics, as does the government’s distrust of alternative narratives of recent history. Many of the Centre’s students were already responsible for implementing gender policies in both government and NGOs, so it was essential to help them acquire skills of gender analysis and knowledge of feminist scholarship to facilitate coherent policymaking.

Feminist Qualitative Research

2020 ◽  
pp. 199-242
Author(s):  
Maureen C. McHugh
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Power Analysis ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Feminist Research ◽  
Double Consciousness ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Gender Oppression ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
Women's Lives

Feminist research is described in terms of its purposes of addressing women’s lives, advocacy for women, analysis of gender oppression, working for social justice, and transformation of society. Feminist critiques of social science research are reviewed in relation to the development of methodological and epistemological positions. Feminist research is viewed as contributing to the transformation of science from empiricism to postmodernism. Reflexivity, collaboration, power analysis, and advocacy are discussed as common practices of feminist qualitative research. Several qualitative approaches to research are described in relation to feminist research goals, with illustrations of feminist research included. Validity and voice are identified as particular challenges in the conduct of feminist qualitative research. Intersectionality and double consciousness are reviewed as feminist contributions to the transformation of science. Some emerging and innovative forms of feminist qualitative research are highlighted in relation to potential future directions.

Gendered Divisions of Labor

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Beth Mills
Keyword(s):  
Social Reproduction ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Economic Restructuring ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Feminist Research ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Reproductive Labor ◽  
Global Industry ◽  
Formal Relations

This chapter examines how contemporary feminist scholarship is informed by and has contributed to the analysis of gendered divisions of labor on a global scale. Drawing on feminist research into gender systems, postcolonial societies, and intersectional relations, studies of gendered divisions of labor offer powerful insights into the unequal dynamics of globalization and the processes of social reproduction. The relevant literature includes work on the feminization of labor across global industry, the commodification of reproductive labor, and the gendered effects of economic restructuring and related forms of neoliberalization. Ultimately, gendered divisions of labor illuminate diverse patterns of inequality in and beyond formal relations of employment, revealing the ways that gendered hierarchies of value proliferate within and across globally interconnected societies and economies.

Feminist Qualitative Research

2014 ◽  
pp. 136-164 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maureen C. McHugh
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Power Analysis ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Feminist Research ◽  
Double Consciousness ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Gender Oppression ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
Women's Lives

Feminist research is described in terms of its purposes of knowledge about women’s lives, advocacy for women, analysis of gender oppression, and transformation of society. Feminist critiques of social science research are reviewed in relation to the development of methodological and epistemological positions. Feminist research is viewed as contributing to the transformation of science from empiricism to postmodernism. Reflexivity, collaboration, power analysis, and advocacy are discussed as common practices of feminist qualitative research. Several qualitative approaches to research are described in relation to feminist research goals, with illustrations of feminist research included. Validity and voice are identified as particular challenges in the conduct of feminist qualitative research. Intersectionality and double consciousness are reviewed as feminist contributions to transformation of science. Some emerging and innovative forms of feminist qualitative research are highlighted in relation to potential future directions.

scholarly journals Moderskab og feminisme - Belyst ud fra enemorfamilien

1997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maren Bak
Keyword(s):  
Single Mothers ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Single Mother ◽  
Private Life ◽  
Feminist Research ◽  
Cultural Representations ◽  
Traditional Gender Roles ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Parent Relationship ◽  
Family Strategies

Feminism's relationship to maternity as a part of women's lives has been marked by ambivalence and doubt. Feminist analyses has concentrated on maternity as a sphere for socialpolitical intervention and on the cultural representations of motherhood. But maternity as part of almost every womans life and lived expericence has been seen by feminists as a major arena for patriarchal oppression and reproduction of traditional gender roles and therefore analysed with doubt and distrust. In the article I argue for the need for a feminist research on the phenomenology of maternity. The empirical investigation of family strategies and maternity in 25 Danish single mother families, carried out by the author, showed an example of maternity as a base for autonomy and selfdetermination. The single mothers emphasized that their children and their work was their basis in life. Maternity was a source of pride and empowement for the mothers. The possibility to make their own decisions regarding themselves and their children was mentioned as a major advantage. The single mother's experiences raise the question if maternity as autonomy and selfreliance is only possible outside two parent relationship. The author argues, that this is not the case, but the development of a nurturing fatherhood which takes repronsibility for nuturing values both in private life and in relationship to the labour market and social policy is a prerequisite.

scholarly journals Cultural Criminology and Gender Consciousness: Moving Feminist Theory From Margin to Center

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
L Naegler ◽  
Sarah Salman
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Sexual Attraction ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Feminist Research ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Cultural Criminology ◽  
Gender Consciousness ◽  
Criminological Research ◽  
And Gender

© 2016, © The Author(s) 2016. Cultural criminology emerged in the mid-nineties with defining texts written by Jock Young, Keith Hayward, and Jeff Ferrell, among others. Since its inception, it has been criticized for its shallow connections with feminist theory. While in theory cultural criminology clearly acknowledges the influence of feminist scholarship, it has in practice often only superficially ‘added’ on gender and sexuality to its scholarly investigations. Yet, as we argue, research identified with cultural criminology has much to gain from feminist theory. This article reviews a range of cultural criminological scholarship, particularly studies of subcultures, edgework, and terrorism. We investigate three themes significant for feminist research: masculinities and femininities, sexual attraction and sexualities, and intersectionality. Such themes, if better incorporated, would strengthen cultural criminology by increasing the explanatory power of resulting analyses. We conclude by advocating that feminist ideas be routinely integrated into cultural criminological research.

Women's Collections in Egypt: Insights into the American University in Cairo's Rare Books and Special Collections Library and the Women and Memory Forum's Archives

Collections ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 315-329
Author(s):  
Stephen Urgola ◽  
Maissan Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Women's History ◽  
Feminist Research ◽  
American University ◽  
Special Collections ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Rare Books ◽  
Women’S History

Two institutions of relatively small size play a major role in documenting women's history in Egypt: the Rare Books and Special Collections Library (RBSCL) of the American University in Cairo (AUC) and the Women and Memory Forum (WMF), a feminist research center in Cairo. This article presents case studies of these institutions’ efforts. The AUC RBSCL's collections are described, including those of leading 20th-century feminist leaders Huda Sharaawi (1879-1947), Doria Shafik (1908-1975), and Aziza Hussein (1919-2015), as are oral history initiatives related to women's history. The article also discusses programs and collections of the WMF, including private papers collections such as that of activist Wedad Mitri (1927-2007), and its Archive of Women's Oral History, which documents women's lives in Egypt and beyond. The initiatives in Egypt of the RBSCL and the WMF indicate how institutions can employ archival collecting, oral history, and outreach-like exhibitions to document and highlight women's historical contributions.

scholarly journals Western Feminist Consciousness in Buchi Emecheta's The Joys of Motherhood

2014 ◽  
Vol 42 ◽  
pp. 12-20
Author(s):  
Zahra Barfi ◽  
Sarieh Alaei
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Equal Rights ◽  
Critical View ◽  
Feminist Study ◽  
Gender Oppression ◽  
Feminist Ideology ◽  
Feminist Discourse ◽  
Women's Lives ◽  
Long Time

Feminism is a collection of movements which struggles for women's rights. Focusing on gender as a basis of women's sexual oppression, feminist scholarship attempts to establish equal rights for women politically, economically, socially, personally, etc. The Joys of Motherhood highlights Buchi Emecheta's critical view toward colonialism and racism affecting Third world women's lives. Besides this, Emecheta goes further to display African women's invisibility and marginalization-which were out of sight for a long time-in terms of some aspects of Western feminist discourse. Her creative discourse, in this regard, casts further light upon the issue of gender oppression in African feminist study. Hence, this study attempts to examine the way in which Emecheta furthers Western feminist ideology.

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