Confessing Feminist Theory: What's “I” Got to Do with It?

Hypatia ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 120-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan David Bernstein
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Academic Discourse ◽  
First Person ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
Feminist Epistemologies

Confessional modes of self-representation have become crucial in feminist epistemologies that broaden and contextualize the location and production of knowledge. In some versions of confessional feminism, the insertion of “I” is reflective, the product of an uncomplicated notion of experience that shuttles into academic discourse apersonal truth. In contrast to reflective intrusions of the first person, reflexive confessing is primarily a questioning mode that imposes self-vigilance on the process of self positioning.

11. Gender and feminist criminology

Criminology ◽  
2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Ugwudike
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Female Crime ◽  
Radical Feminist ◽  
Feminist Criminology ◽  
Feminist Perspectives ◽  
Gender And Crime ◽  
Criminological Theories ◽  
Feminist Epistemologies

This chapter examines the origins, definitions, and principles of feminist criminology. It begins with a discussion of the main theoretical traditions that underpin feminist criminology, namely liberal feminist theory, radical feminist theory, Marxist feminist theory, and socialist feminist theory. It then considers feminist epistemologies such as feminist empiricism, standpoint feminism, and postmodern feminism, as well as the intersections between gender and other structures of disadvantage. It also evaluates the interrelationships between gender and crime by addressing feminist explanations of female crime and masculinities studies of male crime, along with the role of gender in the criminal justice system. The chapter concludes by analysing feminist criminologists' criticisms of what they describe as the androcentricism of mainstream criminological theories as well as some of the key criticisms against feminist perspectives on gender and crime.

scholarly journals The experience of intersubjectivity in feminist research: methodological perspectives

2015 ◽  
Vol 41 (4) ◽  
pp. 913-930 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neiva Furlin
Keyword(s):  
Research Methodology ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
The Subject ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Object Of Study ◽  
Feminist Epistemologies ◽  
The Universe

This article aims to contribute to the studies of research methodology. To this end, we seek to reflect on the experience of an engaged research that clearly shows the influence of the researcher’s existential trajectory on the choice of her object of study, as well as the methodological perspectives that favor the experience of intersubjectivity in the production of knowledge. The ultimate goal is to show that scientific research can be conducted based on a methodological paradigm that breaks with the subject-object dichotomy. As a reference to this discussion, we take an investigation that sought to understand how women constitute themselves as female subjects of theological knowledge and what power dynamics pervade the processes of entering and constructing a female faculty career in a place marked by hegemonic discourses and gender logics of a male social order. Therefore, we emphasize the hermeneutic perspective, as it allows to capture the meanings that female professors assign to their actions and experiences in the universe of theological knowledge. Hermeneutics as a research methodology favor the production of knowledge that is not intended as universal, but rather situated, subjective, and open to new interpretation perspectives. Such characteristics are central in the feminist epistemologies that seek to demystify the pure objectivity and universality of knowledge, showing that the subjects of knowledge are always immersed in a certain situation, position, and circumstance, and that, therefore, no knowledge is produced from nowhere.

Translating authorial presence

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 104-128
Author(s):  
Galina Shleykina ◽  
Frances Junnier
Keyword(s):  
Academic Discourse ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Linguistic Variation ◽  
First Person ◽  
Cultural Variation ◽  
Lingua Franca ◽  
Grammatical Form ◽  
Research Article ◽  
Linguistic Code ◽  
Pragmatic Equivalence

Abstract Of increasing interest in cross-linguistic variation in academic discourse is the way in which writers use first-person pronouns (FPPs) to promote their agency. While research has shown that language specific socio-cultural, rhetorical and lexico-grammatical factors impact levels of self-concealment vs. self-promotion, less attention has been paid to the ways in which translated texts are sensitive to these discoursal traditions. We address this gap by analyzing frequency, rhetorical use, and grammatical form of FPPs in a corpus of research article (RA) abstracts in biology written by Russian and international researchers in two peer-reviewed bilingual journals. Three subcorpora were analyzed: (i) L1 Russian abstracts; (ii) the same abstracts translated into English; (iii) abstracts by international biologists in English from the same journals. The FPP tokens were identified and their frequency, rhetorical use, and forms were compared. The results show significant differences between the corpora which supports previous findings on cross-cultural variation in authorial presence in research genres. The results also suggest that the translation not only transfers L1 linguistic code but also adds a stronger emphasis on author agency. Implications for translating RAs into English as an exercise in linguistic, cognitive, and pragmatic equivalence as well as for accommodating discourse conventions of English as a lingua franca of science are explored.

Undoing Theory: The “Transgender Question” and the Epistemic Violence of Anglo-American Feminist Theory

Hypatia ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 11-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Viviane Namaste
Keyword(s):  
Production Process ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Feminist Research ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
The People ◽  
Epistemic Violence ◽  
The Everyday ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
The Impact

For nearly twenty years, Anglo-American feminist theory has posed its own epistemological questions by looking at the lives and bodies of transsexuals and transvestites. This paper examines the impact of such scholarship on improving the everyday lives of the people central to such feminist argumentation. Drawing on indigenous scholarship and activisms, I conclude with a consideration of some central principles necessary to engage in feminist research and theory—to involve marginal people in the production of knowledge and to transform the knowledge-production process itself.

scholarly journals Fan studies and/as feminist methodology

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Briony Hannell
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Studies ◽  
Feminist Theory ◽  
Feminist Epistemology ◽  
Fan Studies ◽  
Feminist Methodology ◽  
Autobiographical Writing ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
Ontology Building ◽  
Methodological Approaches ◽  
Feminist Cultural Studies

Feminist cultural studies and feminist theory in genealogies of fan studies are taken for granted. However, the implications of feminist methodological and epistemological frameworks within discussions of fan studies methodology are more often inferred than directly stated—or cited. Examining the parallel debates taking place around knowledge, power, and reflexivity within feminist theory, feminist cultural studies, and fan studies illustrates how key methodological approaches within fan studies are deeply grounded in feminist epistemology and ontology. Building on theorizations of the dual positionality of the acafan alongside feminist theorizations of self-reflexivity permits an exploration of how acafandom aligns with feminist methodological frameworks regarding researcher fragmentation and reflexivity. Emotion and affect are important concerns for acafan scholarship to address, as they align fan studies with feminist traditions of personal and autobiographical writing that privilege subjectivity as a legitimate source of knowledge. Explicitly reframing fan studies within this theoretical and methodological context augments the understanding of many of the fundamental beliefs and principles underpinning the production of knowledge within fan studies, and helps refine the critical language used to frame and describe scholarly methodologies.

scholarly journals Consideraciones ético-político-afectivas en investigaciones feministas: articulaciones situadas entre academia y activismo

2021 ◽  
pp. 43
Author(s):  
Daniela Osorio-Cabrera ◽  
Itziar Gandarias ◽  
Karina Fulladosa
Keyword(s):  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
Situated Knowledge ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
Material Analysis ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Bodily Experiences ◽  
Feminist Epistemologies ◽  
Affective Dimensions ◽  
Self Reference ◽  
Ways Of Life

Este artículo tiene como objetivo realizar reflexiones teórico-epistemológicas en base a nuestras experiencias articuladas de investigación activista con perspectiva feminista. En base a un proceso de reflexión dialógica conjunta, compartimos algunas pistas de las dimensiones ético-político-afectivas de los procesos de investigación. Para ello ponemos en diálogo nuestros procesos de investigación con las epistemologías feministas y el intercambio con otras pensadoras-investigadoras feministas. Proponemos poner en valor las relaciones de afecto y amistad, que permiten que nuestras investigaciones sean más habitables. Apostamos por una reflexividad que se deja afectar y atravesar por las emociones como herramienta del conocimiento. Incorporamos el análisis semiótico-material de nuestros propios cuerpos, no para caer en la autorreferencia, sino para contemplar sus efectos en la producción de conocimiento. En síntesis, proponemos otras posibilidades de producción de conocimiento desde las experiencias corporales, los afectos y las diversas relaciones que vamos tejiendo y que sostienen nuestros procesos de investigación para construir colectivamente un conocimiento encarnado y situado, comprometido con la constitución de modos de vida vivibles.The aim of this article is to make theoretical-epistemological reflections based on our articulated experiences of activist research with a feminist perspective. Based on a process of joint dialogical reflection, we share some clues about the ethical-political-affective dimensions of the research processes. To this end, we put our research processes in dialogue with feminist epistemologies and the exchange with other feminist thinkers-researchers. We propose to value affective relationships and friendship, which allow our research to be more habitable. We are committed to a reflexivity that allows itself to be affected and traversed by emotions as a tool for knowledge. We incorporate the semiotic-material analysis of our own bodies, not to fall into self-reference, but to contemplate their effects on the production of knowledge. In short, we propose other possibilities for the production of knowledge based on bodily experiences, affects and the diverse relationships that we weave and that sustain our research processes in order to collectively build an embodied and situated knowledge, committed to the constitution of livable ways of life.

scholarly journals Serviço Social com perspectiva feminista

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 344-362
Author(s):  
Teresa Kleba Lisboa ◽  
Catarina Nascimento de Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Service ◽  
Feminist Epistemology ◽  
Feminist Studies ◽  
Production Of Knowledge ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Race Ethnicity ◽  
Gender Categories ◽  
State Rights ◽  
Feminist Epistemologies

O presente artigo objetiva refletir sobre a produção do conhecimento em Serviço Social e sua inter-relação com os Estudos Feministas, com o propósito de contribuir para a construção de novas cartografias de saberes. Amparado na Epistemologia Feminista, o texto busca desvendar as fissuras que avançam no campo do conhecimento, num período de profundas e aceleradas transformações, no sentido de contribuir com propostas teóricas a partir de uma renovada ênfase nas fronteiras interseccionais, transversais, interdisciplinares entre as categorias gênero, raça/etnia, sexualidade, classe, geração entre outras. O percurso argumentativo acompanhará uma sequência de reflexões realizadas ao longo de anos de experiência, tanto na prática acadêmica, como nos trabalhos de campo realizados através de Projetos de Pesquisa e Extensão, mais especificamente, com mulheres atendidas pelas Instituições que possuem em seus quadros profissionais de Serviço Social, mulheres em situação de violência e assessoria em Conselhos de Direitos Municipal e Estadual de Políticas para Mulheres. PALAVRAS-CHAVE: Epistemologias Feministas. Gênero. Interseccionalidade. Serviço Social.   ABSTRACT This article aims to reflect on the production of knowledge in Social Work and its interrelationship with Feminist Studies, with the purpose of contributing to the construction of new cartographies of knowledge. Based on Feminist Epistemology, the text seeks to unravel as fissures that advance in the field of knowledge, in a period of profound and accelerated transformations, in the sense of contributing with theoretical proposals from a renewed emphasis on intersectional, transversal, interdisciplinary boundaries between as gender categories, race / ethnicity, sexuality, class, generation, among others. The argumentative course will follow a series of reflections carried out over years of experience, both in academic practice and in the fieldwork carried out through Research and Extension Projects, more specifically, with women attended by the Institutions they have in their professional settings of Social Service, women in situations of violence and evaluation in Councils of Municipal and State Rights of Policies for Women. KEYWORDS: Feminist Epistemologies. Genre. Intersectionality. Social service.

First Person on the Last Page: Choosing How to Walk the Path

ASHA Leader ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 72-72
Author(s):  
Kelli Jeffries Owens
Keyword(s):  
First Person
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