The Family Silver: Essays on Relationships among Women

Clark, Wanda M.; Krieger, Susan

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“…Feminist reflexive practice, which I employ here, is the soul work that inspires feminist theorizing and activism around the world . Feminist engagement encourages an academic and activist approach to applying an understanding of the sociological imagination (Mills, 1959) to the art and science of critical storytelling and "writing the social" (Davis et al, 2021;Gornick, 2001;Krieger, 1996;Lorde, 1984;Richardson, 1997;Smith, 2004). Merging scientific and artistic genres in this way asks the reader to engage with the story both intellectually and emotionally (Ettore, 2017).…”

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

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2022

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The Family Silver: Essays on Relationships among Women

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