Feminist Research

Janet Lee’s and Susan M. Shaw’s, Women’s Voices Feminist Visions Classic and Contemporary Readings did provide the proper data to support their analyses. Lee and Shaw used sufficient evidence to address their main topic- the analysis of women’s gender studies by examining historical and contemporary writings. In chapter one Lee and Shaw discussed the purpose of women’s studies and examined gender. The ideas of feminism we evaluated, Lee and Shaw explained the negative attributes associated with feminism as well as the history of the gender movement. Women’s studies is a field of study that has been slowly expanding in the academic world sense the 1970’s. Lee and Shaw did provide the results to the data they analyzed. To prove their statements regarding the study of the

In this light the readings forced me to re-examine positionality, especially in the framework of auto-ethnography. At first I thought this was too obvious but in light of the titular question Stacey asks – “Can There Be a Feminist Ethnography?” – the feminist researcher’s proximity to the data and interpretation positionality becomes the fraught answer to consider, Her awkwardness (if that’s the right word) in balancing the tightrope as an ethical researcher between product and personal integrity feels unexpected yet palpable. The dilemma she faces “forced my recognition that conflicts of interest and emotion between the ethnographer as authentic, related person (i.e. participant), and as exploiting researcher (i.e. observer)” (23). I feel as if she as a feminist researcher was startled by the dilemma she faced and wonder if her surprise was compounded by not anticipating it . How much an epiphany is it to learn that participants come with their own agendas? Therefore participants come with their own inherent powers which threaten to usurp the researcher and her own objectives. In the wake of this surprise she asks the provocative introspective question

Final project research question: What is the efficacy of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy for women who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder because of Domestic violence?

To admit or to label oneself as a feminist is to accept a whirlwind of judgment from those around you. It is without a doubt that the word “Feminism” or “Feminist” turns heads, and not necessarily for the right reasons. Many have resorted to mocking, disagreeing, and/or hating Feminism without even having a good grasp of what it is. The stigmas that feminists face are that they are radical, extremist, liberal, lesbians who hate men, refuse to shave and enjoy burning bras (Lee).Conversely, feminists are principally advocates for social justice and equality as well as aim for the establishment of equally divided power between the sexes. It is obvious that many are unaware of and uneducated on the misogynistic injustices plaguing our world and the toxic environment we all live in- both women and men. Feminism is a positive concept that works to eliminate injustices between both sexes and to establish the value of women, thus should be treated as such a concept instead of being a forbidden idea.

Dorothy Smith’s approach challenges Sociological Theory and the way it has been constructed. She offered a framework to close the gap between the objective knowledge and the personal experiences that people encounters in everyday life. Most importantly, Smith challenges one of the most traditional sociological discourses of male dominance through the use of concepts, theologies, and textual concepts that confines human behavior. Her framework known as institutional ethnography constitutes that bridge between the macro and micro level in society. She also focuses in marginal groups from the micro level and the way their agency is conceptualized to and dominated by the macro level’s ruling relations. She takes women and her experiences to rebuild this framework from a standpoint of inquiry rather than social scientific inquiry. At the end, she sets forward a new goal for marginal groups inner circle to be interconnected with the subjective world and influencing the ongoing theoretical method to find the overall meaning of women. She doesn’t only challenge the official and personal texts mediating the relation of ruling between the abstract theories and the standpoint of women, but she challenges women to be part of a sociological turn for them instead of contributing the limitations of sociological discourses and theories.

Feminism is a theory which begs to understand the nature of gender equality in theoretical or philosophical situations. It would be examined on how the genders work in society, social systems and structures

In choosing for this research project I have decided to challenge the ethical problem of the shortcomings of feminism. There has been much debate over feminism, the questioning of its purpose, its design, its inclusiveness, it is stance on other matters that connect to it. In a quest in finding the shortcomings, and bringing them to light. Using other essays as sources I plan to make this bibliography a journey into the scope not just feminism, but the history of feminism, intersectional feminism, the wage gap, and what defines a feminist. We will take into account of all aspects of feminism and how authors of some essays included have offered their

Women are humans, humans with emotions and the need for self expression. The men, throughout history, have degraded the female sex, they have always seen women as objects and a machine that helps reproduce and carry on their blood. Society formed the ‘perfect’ role for women and it was expected that they follow it. They were expected to be the loving, responsible, obedient, stay at home wives. Due to such an inequitable lifestyle given to women, they decided to fight for equality and defend their gender. They will later be known as feminists. According to Literary and Cultural Theory by Donald Hall, feminists focal point is to investigate the various ways women have been limited to social power and the liberty to self

The research data released from the Minneapolis Domestic Violence Experiment revealed that arresting the perpetrator in domestic violence incidents caused a decline in recidivism rates and deterred future events (Pate and Hamilton 1992). Policy makers largely ignored sociological research until feminists, lobbyists, and the threat of litigation pressured state legislatures to contemplate the results released from the Minneapolis experiment (Phillips and Sobol 2010). Enactment of mandatory arrest laws soon followed, however many believed that the passage of such laws was a mistake due to the inability to replicate the results in other jurisdictions. Mandatory arrest laws effectively removed officer discretion when responding to domestic violence

The challenging and discordant opinions regarding gender equality have origins in various schools of thought, across time and place. Modern feminism heavily borrow from these old ideas and expounds upon them. Feminist worldwide are renowned for the action they must continually take that challenges the negative societal and stereotypical norms

Feminist research centralizes around a search for gendered justice. As a rejection of standard masculine methodological models, with their assumed objectivity and detachment, feminist approaches have been designed to recognize the subjects of research as well as the place of the researcher in the production of knowledge. In order to best account for gendered justice across a multitude of intersectional women, feminists require methodologies to ensure proper knowledge creation, data collection, and critical analysis to ensure the resulting methods are wide-reaching. Many feminist writers have thought about the best way to develop such methodologies. By examining the works

Moreover, a fundamental issue that feminist anthropology attempts to theorise is the widespread inequality between the sexes (Reiter, 1975). Many feminist anthropologists see the secondary status of women as being ‘universal’, although simultaneously acknowledging the cultural differences between societies (Ortoner, 1974). This is an important part of feminist anthropology as it enables the theory to exist without erasing the individual experiences of women. Furthermore, feminist anthropology acts as a means to explore the origins of this sexual inequality. For example, the study of simpler societies from a feminist perspective presents the argument that women’s roles were underplayed and less celebrated than male roles, although remaining

Feminism by definition means the advocacy of women’s rights on the grounds of political, social and economic equality to men. But many a time’s people restrict the boundary of these forgetting the very important element of diversity of women living in different places and in varied situations.

Asses the influence of feminist perspectives to our understanding of society and sociological research methods (33 marks)

Westfahl (2005) recalca la importancia de la ciencia ficción para el movimiento feminista, pues une la teoría