Les sciences et la construction des identités sexuées. Une revue critique

Gardey, Delphine

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“…Within the field of biology in particular, results tend to validate the initial bias in a way that is essentially self-fulfilling, demonstrating that which was expected and reinforcing the initial evidence of binary sex categorisation, and eliminating anything that would shed doubt on it. Research on the biological foundation of binary sex categories are now legion, but they illustrate remarkably well how the 'hard' sciences have their 'soft' spots (Laqueur, 1990;Oudshoorn, 1994;Fox Keller, 1995;Fausto-Sterling, 2000;Gardey and Lo ¨wy, 2000;Gardey, 2006;Jordan-Young, 2010;Raz, 2021). This rigorous demonstration of the selfconfirming feedback loop between unconscious social representations and their consolidation through biased scientific demonstration is indeed a political undertaking because it demonstrates how the strategies of scientific reasoning solidify the least well-founded of its assumptions.…”

Section: The Three Critiques Of Feminist Epistemologymentioning

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Investigating gender in a world of gender consciousness

Jaunait

2022

Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/Bulletin de Méthodologie S

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For better or worse, it has become difficult to conduct research in the social sciences without encountering gender, even well beyond fields that specifically focus on it. Since the advent of gender studies as a discipline, the concept has gained momentum both as a social fact and structure of social action, and as the analytic category through which these are conceptualised. This special issue of the BMS is embedded in the idea that the analysis of gender itself is indissociable from the history of the concept, and that the increasing spread of this notion throughout society has an impact on the way(s) gender is investigated. In the space of just a few decades the world has evolved from one in which researchers were working to give consistency to a nameless force, to one which is now gender conscious, where gender is mobilised, criticised, claimed, resisted, and debated. In a gender conscious world, the rules of research are changing. The notion of gender consciousness that is proposed here borrows carefully from research in the sociology of law developed under the name legal consciousness studies (LCS). The fact that there are different definitions of gender that compete with each other does not prevent us from considering that there is gender, and we may even consider that the proliferation of definitions participates in the stability of the social phenomenon we are studying, just as, for the theorists of LCS, the multiple representations of the law contribute to its hegemony. One of the central issues here is the problematization of the dialectic between categories of practice and categories of analysis, with a focus on the methodological and epistemological questions of these studies. This ‘return to the field’ will provide answers to these questions, beginning with a personal summary overview of what feminist epistemologies (I) and feminist methodologies (II) have contributed to social sciences, before moving on to contemporary research questions that emerge through the prism of gender consciousness (III).

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Section: The Three Critiques Of Feminist Epistemologymentioning

confidence: 99%

Investigating gender in a world of gender consciousness

Jaunait

2022

Bulletin of Sociological Methodology/Bulletin de Méthodologie S

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“…As Gardey (2006) has noted, occidental thinking is historically characterized by the incommensurability and opposition of the male and female. Occidental scientific work on differences in males and females was used to legitimize extant societal gender differences (Löwy, 1995).…”

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A poisoned Chalice: homophobia and codes of conduct

Poesche¹

2020

IJLMA

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to develop an understanding of requirements for firms’ codes of conduct when addressing homophobia in the context of continued colonialism and coloniality. Design/methodology/approach This paper is a literature study. Findings First, occidental firms’ codes of conduct are shown to endanger indigenous homosexual individuals by endangering the protection offered by their indigenous ethics and society. Second, it is shown that tackling homophobia in firms’ codes of conduct on the foundation of occidental ethics forces homosexual individuals to conform to occidental homosexual identities in a world of a multitude of indigenous and hybrid homosexualities and identities render firms’ codes of conduct expressions of continued colonialism and coloniality. Third, a sole reliance on occidental conceptualizations of homophobia is shown to potentially camouflage unethical nationalistic and xenophobic intents. Research limitations/implications Additional research is needed on the dynamics of coexisting multiple indigenous homosexual identities, and reliable ways to determine the substance of indigenous homosexual identities need to be developed in the context of continued colonialism and coloniality. Practical implications Firms need to be cognizant of conflicting identities, hybrid identities and changing identities over time while avoiding to use purported protection against homophobia as a camouflage for nationalistic and xenophobic purposes. Social implications The paper ways to address the protection against homophobia in firms' codes of conduct in the context of continued colonialism and coloniality. Originality/value This paper closes a gap in the literature by considering firms’ codes of conduct as favouring homophobia as a result of continued colonialism and coloniality.

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“…10 Haraway 198510 Haraway , 1988a10 Haraway , 1988b Gardey 2012. 12 Gardey 2006. 13 Duden 1993;Park 1996;Jordanova 1989;Schiebinger 1989;Akrich & Laborie 1999.…”

Section: Science Medical Technology and Gender Relations As A Subjecmentioning

confidence: 99%

Les sciences et la construction des identités sexuées. Une revue critique

Cited by 19 publications

References 24 publications

Investigating gender in a world of gender consciousness

Investigating gender in a world of gender consciousness

A poisoned Chalice: homophobia and codes of conduct

Writing the history of the relations between medicine, gender and the body in the twentieth century: a way forward?

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