Black feminist theory: Charting a course for black women's studies in political science

2004 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 81-93
Author(s):  
Evelyn Simien
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Women's Studies ◽  
Black Feminist Theory ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Women’S Studies

scholarly journals Poetry as Praxis + “Illumination”: Toward an Epistemically Just Health Promotion for Resistance, Healing, and (Re)Imagination

2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 20S-26S
Author(s):  
Ryan J. Petteway
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Health Promotion ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Black Feminist Theory ◽  
Structural Racism ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Police Violence ◽  
Creative Power ◽  
Critical Scholarship ◽  
A Site

Health promotion is facing a most challenging future in the intersections of structural racism, COVID-19 (coronavirus disease 2019), racialized police violence, and climate change. Now is a critical moment to ask how health promotion might become more responsive to and representative of people’s daily realities. Also how it can become a more inclusive partner in, and collaborative conduit of, knowledge—one capable of both informing intellects and transforming hearts. It needs to feel the pulse of the “fierce urgency of now,” and perhaps nothing can reveal this pulse more than the creative power of art—especially poetry. Drawing from critical and Black feminist theory, I use commentary in prose to conceptualize and call for an epistemically just health promotion guided by poetry as praxis—not just as method. I posit that, as praxis rooted in lived realities, poetry becomes experiential excavation and illumination; a practice of community, communion, and solidarity; a site and source of healing; and a space to create new narratives of health to forge new paths toward its promotion. I accordingly suggest a need to view and value poetry as a critical scholarship format to advance health promotion knowledge, discourse, and action toward a more humanized pursuit—and narrative—of health equity.

Integrating Women's Studies in a Political Science Curriculum

1983 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 13-14
Author(s):  
Leta A. Moniz
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Women's Studies ◽  
Curriculum Change ◽  
Science Curriculum ◽  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
Feminist Philosophy ◽  
Women’S Studies ◽  
Orderly Fashion ◽  
The Impact

Integrating Women's Studies with any curriculum, political science or otherwise, is a formidable task. And like most changes in curriculum, the integration of Women's Studies material has not come about in orderly fashion. There are some dimensions to Women's Studies integration, however, that set it apart from other curriculum change.The thrust of Women's Studies vis a vis any discipline is to revise and reinterpret that discipline from a feminist perspective. Feminist philosophy has argued that traditional methodologies, theories, and manifest analyses have contained a patriarchal bias which has excluded the impact of women from the intellectual evolution of humankind. Thus, on the discipline and on the academy itself, the very premise of Women's Studies makes demands which are far-reaching and threatening to establishment doctrine.

Does Manning Men's Studies Emasculate Women's Studies?

Hypatia ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 153-156 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry Brod
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Women's Studies ◽  
Institutional Autonomy ◽  
Men's Studies ◽  
Women’S Studies ◽  
Feminist Study ◽  
Men’S Studies

Defends “The New Men's Studies: From Feminist Theory to Gender Scholarship” (Hypatia 2:1, Winter 1987) against what is argued are Mary Libertin's misreadings. The argument for men's studies is logically independent of though related to the debate about essentialism in women's studies. Men's studies studies men in and as particular groups. Intellectual should not be equated with institutional autonomy. The feminist study of men should be supported by feminist scholars.

scholarly journals Resolving the problem of Algorithmic Dissonance: An unconventional solution for a sociotechnical problem

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shiv Issar
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Black Feminist Theory ◽  
Double Consciousness ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
Sociotechnical Imaginaries ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Structural Inequities ◽  
Sociocultural Systems

In this paper, I propose the concept of “algorithmic dissonance”, which characterizes the inconsistencies that emerge through the fissures that lie between algorithmic systems that utilize system identities, and sociocultural systems of knowledge that interact with them. A product of human-algorithm interaction, algorithmic dissonance builds upon the concepts of algorithmic discrimination and algorithmic awareness, offering greater clarity towards the comprehension of these sociotechnical entanglements. By employing Du Bois’ concept of “double consciousness” and black feminist theory, I argue that all algorithmic dissonance is racialized. Next, I advocate for the use of speculative methodologies and art for the creation of critically informative sociotechnical imaginaries that might serve a basis for the sociological critique and resolution of algorithmic dissonance. Algorithmic dissonance can be an effective check against structural inequities, and of interest to scholars and practitioners concerned with running “algorithm audits”.

Women's Studies Programs

PMLA ◽  
1980 ◽  
Vol 95 (4) ◽  
pp. 670-675
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Women's Studies ◽  
Educational Service ◽  
Science History ◽  
Women’S Studies ◽  
Maryland College ◽  
College Park ◽  
Interdisciplinary Courses

Most of the programs listed below are interdisciplinary; that is, they combine courses in literature, language, or culture with work in sociology, anthropology, economics, political science, history, philosophy, psychology, biology, and related fields. Many offer interdisciplinary courses as well as internships. Some programs offer minors or certificates; others offer major concentrations in women's studies or award A.A., B.A., M.A., or Ph.D. degrees. Where no coordinator, director, or chairperson is listed, the program may be in the process of organization, or it may have chosen to function through a committee or to rotate the administrative function.This list is maintained and published as an educational service of the National Women's Studies Association (Univ. of Maryland, College Park 20742) and of the Women's Studies Newsletter (Box 334, Old Westbury, NY 11568). Compilers for 1980 were Sharon Hagan and Elaine Reuben for NWSA, Shirley Frank and Florence Howe for the Women's Studies Newsletter.For additional copies of this list, send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to NWSA or to the Women's Studies Newsletter. Address additions or corrections for future lists to NWSA.

Teaching to Digress

2015 ◽  
pp. 120-145
Author(s):  
Gwendolyn Etter-Lewis ◽  
Roselyn K. Banda ◽  
Sarah A. Kinley
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Graduate Student ◽  
Educational Experiences ◽  
Black Feminist Theory ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
College Curriculum ◽  
Traditional Course ◽  
Collective Inquiry ◽  
Oppositional Discourse ◽  
The U.S

This chapter explores the challenge of creating a “liberated” classroom, one that digresses from the norm in both content and structure according to feminist principles. This teaching project was designed to create a unique learning environment through the use of black feminist pedagogy. Charged with teaching a cross-listed course (Women's Studies, Black Studies) entitled “Black Feminist Theory,” the teaching team consisted of a professor, a graduate student, and an undergraduate student. The team came together from a diversity of educational experiences in the U.S. and Africa. This chapter is a reflection of the team's experiences co-teaching a “non-traditional” course as well as a collective inquiry about the strategic importance of incorporating oppositional discourse into the college curriculum.

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 143-162
Author(s):  
J. Lorenzo Perillo
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Cultural Politics ◽  
Hip Hop ◽  
Imaging Technique ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Black Feminist Theory ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Historical Significance ◽  
The U.S

The conclusion reflect on the meaning of Hip-Hop dance as witnessed in the U.S. embassy’s diplomatic convention “America in 3D: Diplomacy, Development, and Defense” (2011) in the Philippines. It argues for more engagement between Black feminist theory and Filipina performances, like “Pinays Rise,” a dance within the convention that challenged gender and class stereotypes of Filipinas as caregivers. The conclusion first analyzes “Pinays Rise,” and then connects the convention’s theme to the historical significance of stereoscopy, or the depth-enhancing imaging technique. The conclusion reviews the book’s main arguments and addresses the potential uses for performative euphemism in academic studies of culture and race. Finally, it calls for a holistic approach to Hip-Hop that reckons with discourses of Filipino cultural politics and dance.

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