Book Review: <i>Feminist Methodologies for Critical Researchers: Bridging Differences</i>, 2nd ed.

Shupe, Kyle

doi:10.1177/0092055x17711166

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“…At a basic level, a critical feminist approach to method acknowledges the subjectivity of the researcher and deconstructs the complex issue of power in the knowledge production process of research, writing, and publishing (Sprague, 2016;Stanley & Wise, 1990). Just as there are a plethora of feminist theories, there is also an explosion of critical feminist methods and methodologies (e.g., DeVault, 2018;Fine, 2018).…”

Section: Method: Critical Feminist Autoethnographic Researchmentioning

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Feminist theory, method, and praxis: Toward a critical consciousness for family and close relationship scholars

Allen

2022

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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Feminism provides a worldview with innovative possibilities for scholarship and activism on behalf of families and intimate relationships. As a flexible framework capable of engaging with contentious theoretical ideas and the urgency of social change, feminism offers a simultaneous way to express an epistemology (knowledge), a methodology (the production of knowledge), an ontology (one’s subjective way of being in the world), and a praxis (the translation of knowledge into actions that produce beneficial social change). Feminist family science, in particular, advances critical, intersectional, and queer approaches to examine the uses and abuses of power and the multiple axes upon which individuals and families are privileged, marginalized, and oppressed in diverse social contexts. In this paper, I embrace feminism as a personal, professional (academic), and political project and use stories from my own life to illuminate broader social-historical structures, processes, and contexts associated with gender, race, class, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, nationality, and other systems of social stratification. I provide a brief history and reflections on contemporary feminist theory and activism, particularly from the perspective of my disciplinary affiliation of feminist family science. I address feminism as an intersectional perspective through three themes: (a) theory: defining a critical feminist approach, (b) method: critical feminist autoethnographic research, and (c) praxis: transforming feminist theory into action. I conclude with takeaway messages for incorporating reflexivity and critical consciousness raising to provoke thought and action in the areas of personal, professional, and political change.

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Section: Method: Critical Feminist Autoethnographic Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Feminist theory, method, and praxis: Toward a critical consciousness for family and close relationship scholars

Allen

2022

Journal of Social and Personal Relationships

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“…All were recorded and later transcribed. To encourage participants to talk freely about the issues of their own choice and to recognise their role in producing this research (Sprague, 2016), I did not guide the interview in anyway other than by opening it with the statement that being a working woman could be considered to be somewhat problematic in the UAE context.…”

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Bridging the gap Between Cultural Subordinate and Organisational Success: Emirati Women’s Liminal Economic Agency

Goby

2022

ECMLG

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This paper explores responses to the latent, but still robust, cultural resistance to Emirati women's liminal economic agency in the United Arab Emirates. While a great deal of state policy has sought to encourage women into the workforce and to provide them with a level platform on which to participate economically, some religio-cultural values still prioritise women's family-related roles. One result of this is that there is substantial disparity between women's educational skills and the extent of their participation in the economy. This study uses narrative methodology to explore how Emirati women respond to the surviving prejudices that maintain that they are not fully entitled to engage in the workforce. A highly dominant theme that emerges in this study is that women have identified, and begun to celebrate, the role that women have played in the economic history of their country. They highlight that economically active women are not a new phenomenon in their society. The contribution this study makes is its analysis of how culture and gender are mutually reconstituted and how aspects of modernity are incorporated into a framework of traditional values. This analysis demonstrates a means by which women in a highly patriarchal society seek to defend and legitimate their unrestricted economic participation. It also illustrates how tradition and modernity become blended rather than existing as a dualism.

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“…Although psychologists have not always clearly and systematically distinguished epistemologies and methods, epistemologies and methods are connected. (Sprague, 2016) Purposefully choosing our research methods to be consistent with our epistemological orientation is important for the integrity of our work, and some epistemologies are more compatible with intersectionality than others. That is, epistemologies differ in their specific assumptions about the knower, what is known, and the process of knowing, each of which are systematically interrelated with power and inequality (Guba & Lincoln, 1994;Harding, 1986;Sprague, 2016).…”

Section: What Is Intersectional Research?mentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Else-Quest and Hyde (2016a) discussed several epistemologies vis-à-vis intersectionality, noting that as a critical theory, intersectionality assumes that power and inequality are fundamental to the construction of thought, experience, and knowledge. Thus, intersectionality is most compatible with epistemological stances that assume knowledge is socially constructed, partial, and inextricably linked to power and privilege, such as standpoint theory (Harding, 1986;Hare-Mustin & Marecek, 1988;Sprague, 2016). That is, social constructionism and standpoint theory draw explicit connections between the knower, knowledge creation, and power thus rejecting notions of one universal "truth" and challenging traditional or mainstream psychology and positivism (Settles et al, 2020).…”

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The intersectionality imperative: Calling in stigma and health research.

Else‐Quest¹,

French²,

Telfer³

2023

Stigma and Health

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In drawing attention to the power, privilege, and inequities embedded in multiple interconnected social categories like gender, race, and class, intersectionality is a critical theory and approach well-suited to stigma and health research. With deep historical roots in 19th century Black feminism, intersectionality has traveled generatively across diverse disciplines. Like stigma, intersectionality is fundamentally about the power conferred by our social context. Like stigma research, intersectional research ultimately aims to rectify inequities and promote the well-being of members of stigmatized or marginalized groups. Using an intersectional approach in stigma and health can guide research aims; prompt new questions, and reframe, reconceptualize, or discover psychological phenomena or processes, as well as empower members of stigmatized groups and address disparities and inequities. It can be deployed to think innovatively about differences, similarities, connections, and coalitions among intersectional groups, or to analyze how institutions perpetuate disparities. Acknowledging the important contributions made by stigma and health research within an intersectional approach, we call in stigma and health researchers who either question intersectionality's relevance to their work or want to explore its applicability or feasibility. Reflecting on some of the debates within intersectionality scholarship around what intersectionality is, who it is for, and how it can be implemented, we also point to future directions for research. We affirm the intersectional imperative to identify and rectify inequities and disparities that construct and result from intersecting systems of oppression, while acknowledging a diversity of interpretations and methods that embrace that guiding principle.

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Book Review: Feminist Methodologies for Critical Researchers: Bridging Differences, 2nd ed.

Cited by 8 publications

References 1 publication

Feminist theory, method, and praxis: Toward a critical consciousness for family and close relationship scholars

Feminist theory, method, and praxis: Toward a critical consciousness for family and close relationship scholars

Bridging the gap Between Cultural Subordinate and Organisational Success: Emirati Women’s Liminal Economic Agency

The intersectionality imperative: Calling in stigma and health research.

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