Critical Realism, Feminism, and Gender: A Reader

ISBN-13: 9781032235950 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 314 str.

Michiel Van Ingen; Steph Grohmann; Lena Gunnarsson

Opis

This reader suggests that returning to, and placing centre-stage, the role of philosophy, especially critical realist philosophy of science, is invaluable for efforts that seek to overcome or mitigate the uncertainty and acrimony which have characterised the discipline in recent years.

Spis treści

Making Waves, and Beyond  Part I Philosophical Preliminaries: Critical Realism, Feminism, and Gender 1. Feminism, Realism, and Universalism  2. Post-structuralist and Constructivist Feminism  3. Sex and Gender: A Critical Realist Approach  4. A Defence of the Category ‘Women’  5. Gender Theory Non-conforming: Critical Realist Feminism, Trans Politics, and Affordance Theory  Part II Critical Realism and Intersectionality 6. Developing a Critical Realist Positional Approach to Intersectionality  7. Agency and Ontology within Intersectional Analysis: A Critical Realist Contribution  8. Why we keep Separating the ‘Inseparable’: Dialecticising Intersectionality  Part III Methodology and Methods: Critical Realism and Empirical Research 9. The Reality of Gender (Ideology): Using Abduction and Retroduction in Applied Critical Realist Research  10. After Constructivism: Rethinking Feminist Security Studies through Interdisciplinary Research  11. Integrating Critical Realist and Feminist Methodologies: Ethical and Analytical Dilemmas  12. Critical Realist Discourse Analysis, Motherhood, and Gender: A Systematic Methodological Approach to Analysis  Further Reading

O autorze

Michiel van Ingen is an Associate Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.

Steph Grohmann is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Centre for Homeless and Inclusion Health at the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

Lena Gunnarsson is a Researcher and Teacher in Gender Studies at Örebro University and Lund University, Sweden.