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Catherine E. Harnois - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Sociological Research on Feminism and the Women’s Movement: Ideology, Identity, and Practice
Sociology Compass, 2012Co-Authors: Catherine E. HarnoisAbstract:This article provides an overview of sociological research on three aspects of Feminism: Feminism as an ideology; Feminism as an identity; and Feminism as a practice. I summarize the main contributions of sociological research in each of these areas, and highlight the overarching contributions for understanding contemporary Feminism. Three contributions are key. First, sociological research highlights the existence multiple varieties of Feminism –“Feminisms” as opposed to a singular “Feminism.” Second, this research reveals that feminist ideologies, identities, and movements are each dynamic – they have changed historically, and continue to change in response to shifting socio-political, economic, and technological landscapes. Third, sociological research demonstrates that Feminism is alive and well, and in many senses thriving, in the contemporary United States. Though some aspects of Feminism are more widespread than others, sociological research challenges the notion that Feminism, on the whole, has declined. As an ideology, an identity, and a practice, Feminism remains strong in the contemporary United States.
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different paths to different Feminisms bridging multiracial feminist theory and quantitative sociological gender research
Gender & Society, 2005Co-Authors: Catherine E. HarnoisAbstract:This article examines the limitations of the sociological research on feminist identities and ideologies that ignores the intersection of race and gender. Drawing from multiracial feminist theorizing, the author asks, Is self-identification as feminist a biased indicator of the salience of Feminism in African American women's lives? Do women's racial statuses mediate the relationship between particular life events and experiences and the extent to which they embrace Feminism? and To what extent are racial differences important when considering what women understand Feminism to be? To answer these questions, the author conducted multiple group analyses of structural equation models to analyze data from the 1996 General Social Survey. Her findings are consistent with multiracial feminist theories and suggest a need to rethink traditional approaches to feminist research so that women's differences are no longer marginalized.
Simidele Dosekun - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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for western girls only post Feminism as transnational culture
Feminist Media Studies, 2015Co-Authors: Simidele DosekunAbstract:Much of the literature on post-Feminism concerns the “Western” world and variously conceptualizes post-Feminism as “Western culture.” This article argues that, as a result, feminist cultural scholars have not sufficiently imagined, theorized or empirically researched the possibility of post-Feminism in non-Western cultural contexts. By briefly reviewing what has been said in the literature about post-Feminism and the non-West, and by putting this in dialogue with transnational feminist cultural scholarship, this article makes a case for a transnational analytic and methodological approach to the critical study of post-Feminism. It argues that such an approach provides an understanding of post-Feminism as a transnationally circulating culture, and thus can better account for the fact that the culture interpellates not only women in the West but also others elsewhere. The article concludes by outlining what it means and could afford feminist cultural scholars to work with a new conceptual view of post-Feminism as transnational culture.
Bonnie Thornton Dill - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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theorizing difference from multiracial Feminism
Feminist Studies, 1996Co-Authors: Maxine Baca Zinn, Bonnie Thornton DillAbstract:Women of color have long challenged the hegemony of Feminisms constructed primarily around the lives of white middleclass women. Since the late 1960s, U.S. women of color have taken issue with unitary theories of gender. Our critiques grew out of the widespread concern about the exclusion of women of color from feminist scholarship and the misinterpretation of our experiences,1 and ultimately "out of the very discourses, denying, permitting, and producing difference."2 Speaking simultaneously from "within and against" both women's liberation and antiracist movements, we have insisted on the need to challenge systems of domination,3 not merely as gendered subjects but as women whose lives are affected by our location in multiple hierarchies. Recently, and largely in response to these challenges, work that links gender to other forms of domination is increasing. In this article, we examine this connection further as well as the ways in which difference and diversity infuse contemporary feminist studies. Our analysis draws on a conceptual framework that we refer to as "multiracial Feminism."4 This perspective is an attempt to go beyond a mere recognition of diversity and difference among women to examine structures of domination, specifically the importance of race in understanding the social construction of gender. Despite the varied concerns and multiple intellectual stances which characterize the Feminisms of women of color, they share an emphasis on race as a primary force situating genders differently. It is the centrality of race, of institutionalized racism, and of struggles against racial oppression that link the various feminist perspectives within this framework. Together, they demonstrate that racial meanings offer new theoretical directions for feminist thought. Feminist Studies 22, no. 2 (summer 1996). ? 1996 by Feminist Studies, Inc. 321
Deboleena Roy - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Molecular Feminisms : Biology, Becomings, and Life in the Lab
University of Washington Press, 2018Co-Authors: Deboleena RoyAbstract:"“Should feminists clone?” “What do neurons think about?” “How can we learn from bacterial writing?” These and other provocative questions have long preoccupied neuroscientist, molecular biologist, and intrepid feminist theorist Deboleena Roy, who takes seriously the capabilities of lab “objects”—bacteria and other human, nonhuman, organic, and inorganic actants—in order to understand processes of becoming. In Molecular Feminisms, Roy investigates science as Feminism at the lab bench, engaging in an interdisciplinary conversation between molecular biology, Deleuzian philosophies, posthumanism, and postcolonial and decolonial studies. She brings insights from feminist theory together with lessons learned from bacteria, subcloning, and synthetic biology, arguing that renewed interest in matter and materiality must be accompanied by a feminist rethinking of scientific research methods and techniques
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Molecular Feminisms: Biology, Becomings, and Life in the Lab
2018Co-Authors: Deboleena RoyAbstract:"Should feminists clone?" "What do neurons think about?" "How can we learn from bacterial writing?" These and other provocative questions have long preoccupied neuroscientist, molecular biologist, and intrepid feminist theorist Deboleena Roy, who takes seriously the capabilities of lab "objects"-bacteria and other human, nonhuman, organic, and inorganic actants-in order to understand processes of becoming. In Molecular Feminisms, Roy investigates science as Feminism at the lab bench, engaging in an interdisciplinary conversation between molecular biology, Deleuzian philosophies, posthumanism, and postcolonial and decolonial studies. She brings insights from feminist theory together with lessons learned from bacteria, subcloning, and synthetic biology, arguing that renewed interest in matter and materiality must be accompanied by a feminist rethinking of scientific research methods and techniques.The open access edition of Molecular Feminisms is available thanks to a TOME grant from Emory University, with funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.DEBOLEENA ROY is associate professor and chair of the Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and holds a joint appointment in the Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology Program at Emory University.
Jonathan Dean - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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rethinking contemporary feminist politics
2010Co-Authors: Jonathan DeanAbstract:Introduction Current Developments in Feminist Politics Rethinking Feminist Radicalism The Fawcett Society: The End of the Road for Equality Feminism? Women's Aid: Professionalised Radicalism? 1 The F-word: Cultural Politics and Third-Wave Feminism Conclusion: The Consequences of Optimism Notes Bibliography
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Feminism in the Papers
Feminist Media Studies, 2010Co-Authors: Jonathan DeanAbstract:This paper argues that existing accounts of the “post-feminist” gender regime place excessive emphasis on modes of repudiation of Feminism, at the expense of analysing possibilities for the affirmation of Feminism in the mainstream media. I argue that this oversight may be rectified by an assessment of the ways in which Feminism is affirmed, contested and spoken about in the pages of the quality press. Consequently, the bulk of the paper consists of an analysis of articles specifically about Feminism and gender in two British quality newspapers with divergent political orientations. These are The Guardian, which is left-leaning and broadly pro-feminist, and The Times, which is more conservative and ambivalent towards Feminism. In so doing, the paper introduces the notion of feminist “domestication” as central to constructions of Feminism in The Guardian, and to a lesser extent in The Times. Domestication refers to the explicit or implicit affirmation of a safe, unthreatening form of Feminism via a disavow...
