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Feminism and methodology: social science issues/ Edit. : Sandra Harding
No full textx, 193 hal. : ill.; 23 cm
Feminism and methodology: social science issues/ Edit. : Sandra Harding
No full textx, 193 hal. : ill.; 23 cm
The way of life of Mr. Nowhere: Review of the book Objectivity and Diversity, by Sandra Harding
No full textDr. Jill Fellows (Douglas College) reviews the book Objectivity and Diversity by Sandra Harding (2015).Final article published
Brigham Young's homes
No full textEdited by Colleen Whitley with contributions from Sandra Dawn Brimhall [and others].Includes bibliographical references and index.This collection surveys the many houses, residences, farms, and properties of Brigham Young, leader of the Mormon pioneers, first territorial governor of Utah, and second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The authors discuss, in addition to the buildings themselves, what went on within their walls, looking especially at the lives of Young's plural wives and their children. Their emphasis is on Young's residences as homes, not just structures. The text is heavily illustrated with photos, drawings and maps.Determining and defining "wife": the Brigham Young households / Jeffery Ogden Johnson -- Brigham Young's birthplace and New York residences / Marianne Harding Burgoyne -- A missionary's life: Ohio, Missouri, England, and Illinois / Marianne Harding Burgoyne -- Wives in wagons: winter quarters and the trek west / Judy Dykman and Colleen Whitley -- Settling in Salt Lake City / Judy Dykman and Colleen Whitley -- The Beehive and Lion houses / W. Randall Dixon -- The Brigham Young farm house / Elinor G. Hyde -- The Gardo House / Sandra Dawn Brimhall and Mark D. Curtis -- Beyond Salt Lake City / Judy Dykman, Colleen Whitley, and Kari K. Robinson
What we can learn from the former workers of a Vietnamese state farm to understand privatised employment-based pension systems : engaging with critical realism?
No full textThis paper first revisits the discussion between Tony Lawson and Sandra Harding in the journal Feminist Economics in light of the author’s own research into basic mechanisms of capitalist economies, research that has been influenced by feminist standpoint theory. The paper then presents a brief summary of field research in Vietnam, which has led to the development of a theoretical framework that allows the identification of particular forms of capital valorisation. The author then uses this framework for a critical analysis of the Australian superannuation system to illustrate the framework’s more general use in analysing capitalism at the beginning of the 21st century. At the end the paper returns to the debate between Lawson and Harding and endeavours to illustrate, based on the author’s own research, some of the shortcomings of contrastive explanations as advocated by Tony Lawson’s variety of Critical Realism
Klasyfiksacja w Teorii Feministycznej
No full textIn her article, Iris van der Tuin engages in a discussion concerning the way categorization and classification work and organize theoretical inquiries. The author elaborates closely on classification of feminist epistemology introduced by Sandra Harding in her book The Science Question, where the three strands are recognized: “feminist empiricism”, “feminist standpoint theory”, and “feminist postmodernism”. Van der Tuin offers the term classifixation to demonstrate that classification is not a neutral mediator and that the way scholars establish canon matters epistemologically and politically. With her method of “jumping-generations” van der Tuin presents new materialisms and how new materialist cartographies work to overcome dualist thinking structures
Classifixation in Feminist Theory
No full textIn her article, Iris van der Tuin engages in a discussion concerning the way categorization and classification work and organize theoretical inquiries. The author elaborates closely on classification of feminist epistemology introduced by Sandra Harding in her book The Science Question, where the three strands are recognized: “feminist empiricism”, “feminist standpoint theory”, and “feminist postmodernism”. Van der Tuin offers the term classifixation to demonstrate that classification is not a neutral mediator and that the way scholars establish canon matters epistemologically and politically. With her method of “jumping-generations” van der Tuin presents new materialisms and how new materialist cartographies work to overcome dualist thinking structures
Men in Africa: masculinities, materiality and meaning
No full textAt a public lecture in Cape Town earlier this year, Professor
Sandra Harding, an internationally renowned feminist author,
spoke to the question �Can men be subjects of feminist
thought?� (1 March 2010, District Six Museum, Cape Town). In
her talk, Harding called on men to elaborate critically on their
subjective experiences and practices of being boys and men �
from childhood to adulthood, and through fatherhood to old age.
She argued that while androcentric thinking has dominated
knowledge production globally, men�s self-reflexive voices on
their own experiences of being boys and men have been relatively
silent, particularly through a profeminist and critical gender
lens. Harding thus drew attention to an important challenge
confronting contemporary psychology, a challenge that underpins
the rationale for this Special Edition of the Journal of Psychology
in Africa. However, much of our knowledge within the
discipline of psychology has been and remains uncritically
based on boys� and men�s experiences and perspectives. More
specifically, as Boonzaier and Shefer (2007) argue, most psychological
knowledge is not only predominantly based on research
with men, but also in most cases, middle-class, white,
American men. Studies that problematise and foreground masculinity
itself, that challenge masculinity as normative, and that
apply a critical, gendered lens, are still relatively marginal in the
social sciences and particularly in psychology. This is however
beginning to change.Web of Scienc
Behind the medical mask : medical technology and medical power
No full textThis thesis explores the role of technology as a resource in the
structure of medical domination of birth and death, stressing
technology's pivotal position at the intersection of control and
uncertainty.
Based in Intensive Care and Obstetrics (between which the health status
of patients diverges sharply), it notes the convergence of technology
used and examines the contest for control within the labour process.
This includes using technology to facilitate a 'standardized' birth or
death; a more retrospectively defensible event. In general, the
'burden of proof' is concluded to lie with those wishing not to
intervene rather than the reverse.
Given the (cognitively male) biomedical model, mind-body dualism is an
assumption embedded in medical technology: this is especially
significant in childbirth, where it fractures the woman's ontological
experience of giving birth. Its positivistic and pathological
emphasis is associated with a reification of processes and a
commodification of their 'solution': which becomes located in
technology. It is argued that commodification in health provision will
increase with the further application of market principles to the NHS.
It is concluded that 'uncertainty', endemic to medicine and a possible
challenge to control, is proactively manipulated and pressed into the
service of medical domination. Technology is used to mask uncertainty
and aid the medical profession's control of patients/relatives, and
subordinate work groups.
A technological fix may be viewed as the opposite to re-discovering
societal dreams and myths, however, more paradoxically, it is concluded
that dreams and myths have become attached to technology. Thus, the
symbolic role of technology is: to provide hope of continued survival
(or cure), the veiling of existential uncertainty and the offer of
'absolution' - should all efforts fail (a freedom from guilt in the
assurance that "everything possible was tried"). Its 'heroic' project
is viewed as an existentially 'masculine' health provision and
'feminized' health care is posited as an alternative
"Open the Gates Mek We Repatriate": Caribbean slavery, constructivism, and hermeneutic tensions
No full textThis is a post-peer-review, pre-copy edit version of an article published in International Theory. The definitive publisher-authenticated version: Shilliam, Robbie. "“Open the Gates Mek We Repatriate”: Caribbean slavery, constructivism, and hermeneutic tensions." International Theory 6.02 (2014): 349-372 is available online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1752971914000165© 2015, Cambridge University Press
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