On our own terms

Abstract

This paper reports on a systematic literature review of CAIS/ACSI and ASIS&T conferenceproceedings in order to identify, analyze, and map the presence and application of feministtheories, methods, and epistemologies across a sample of LIS research projects. We seek a betterunderstanding of the application of feminist theories to LIS in order to a) identify how/where ithas been taken up (and not taken up); b) identify feminist research themes and influence overtime and across sub-domains; and perhaps most importantly, c) to consider how we might buildon intersectional feminist theories and praxis in LIS in order to move toward a criticalintersectional femiLISt movement that is embraced and embedded within our field.

FemiLISm now!: Identifying and exploring feminist theories and methods in CAIS/ACSI and ASIS&T conference proceedings, 1993-2021

“…Taking the feminist stance ourselves that our work is never value neutral and should always strive for justice and social liberation for equity-deserving and vulnerable populations, we conclude by making recommendations to both a) further develop this research project to understand the past and future of intersectional feminism(s) in LIS, and b) move towards a critical intersectional femiLISt movement that is embraced and embedded within our field. Originally presented at the CAIS/ACSI conference in 2022 (Allard, Oliphant, and Chambers 2022), this article elaborates the themes identified in that extended conference abstract and offers a more thoroughly articulated path forward towards a critical intersectional femiLISm.…”