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Journal articles on the topic "Critical feminist paradigm"
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Safarik, Lynn. "Theorizing Feminist Transformation in Higher Education." Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education 104, no. 8 (December 2002): 1718–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/016146810210400802.
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Over the past several decades, academic feminisms, like other emancipatory knowledges (Bensimon, 1994) that have gained legitimacy in the academy have contributed to a transformation on American campuses that is challenging traditional norms, values, and assumptions across the disciplines in an effort to build communities centered on differences. As a new paradigm for inquiry, feminist scholarship has addressed the relationship between knowledge and its social uses and how patriarchal values have shaped the content and structure of knowledge. Through an in-depth exploration of nine feminists’ worldviews and approaches to teaching and research, this study examined the meaning of transformation for diverse feminists in the setting of a large, urban research institution. Three types of feminism were identified: liberal, critical, and dialogic. Beyond providing rich descriptions of how these different feminists enact a feminist culture, insights about the process of institutional transformation are revealed. The transformative role of internal differentiation and the dialogic process in this feminist community and the significance of an emerging dialogic, feminist discourse have important theoretical implications for understanding how the transformation of an institution is sustained over time.
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Anjum, Mashhood, Iftikhar Baig, and Abdul Hameed. "Quest for Body and Voice: A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of Shamsie's Broken Verses." Global Language Review VI, no. II (June 30, 2021): 78–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/glr.2021(vi-ii).09.
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In contemporary and postmodern literary discourses, feminism has introduced a paradigm change in the sex debates. The plan of feminist critical discourse analysis is to explore different discourses from a feminist viewpoint. The planned study conforms to this field of feminist discourse that will attempt to analyze Kamila Shamsie's selected work, Broken Verses. She, being a famous feminist, has produced discourses in which structural and thematic samples absorb sex debates. Her feminist tendency has established clear expression in all the aspects of her works: body, voice and characterization. The current study shows how she has used feminist discourse strategies in conventionality with her feminist literary position. This research extensively improves the perceptive of Kamila Shamsie's work and pictures how the feministic arrangement and feminist critical discourse analysis have been inventively infused in her famous works.
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Fernández-Santiago, Miriam. "Agential Materialism and the Feminist Paradigm. A Posthumanist Approach." Journal of Feminist, Gender and Women Studies, no. 10 (May 17, 2021): 31–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.15366/jfgws2021.10.004.
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Much has been argued within the fertile critical field of feminism in the second half of the twentieth century. With the advantage of distance from the twenty-first century, we can now gain a certain perspective on the general context of production and reception of feminist criticism as it becomes embodied in new myths that subvert the old phallogocentric ones. My approach intends to start a dialogue between such embodiments (mainly in the work of Cixous, Hayles, de Beauvoir, and Haraway) and Karen Barad’s agential materialism, using her critical construct of “phenomenon” as an instrument to understand the feminist paradigm in the post-human context and proposing accountable diffractive intra-action as an alternative to naturalized constructs.
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Ahmad, Mumtaz, Umar Hayat, and Nasir Iqbal. "Language, Women and Discourse in Toni Morrison’s Fiction." Global Social Sciences Review IV, no. I (March 30, 2019): 425–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2019(iv-i).55.
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The present study, grounded in the qualitative research paradigm, is an interpretive and explanatory analysis of Toni Morrison's fiction from the critical perspective of post structuralist feminist literary theory and fiction. In my reading of Toni Morrison's fiction as the manifestation/materialization of the knowledge in terms of discursive (re)configuration of women and to analyze their works from "feminine sentence" perspective, I have used Feminist poststructuralist theories in the discourse-theoretical/methodological background. As part of the methodology, this project draws extensively upon feminist theories, particularly those propounded by French Feminists Helene Cixous and Julia Kristeva, which I have used in the backdrop of discourse analysis methods proposed by Michel Foucault. This fusion of Feminist theories as a theoretical framework and discourse analysis as a methodology has illuminated systematically the process of the discursive formation, dissemination, and institutionalization of the knowledge about women. For my analysis of the discourse spectrum of the texts-to-be-analyzed, I have used extensively Foucault's notions about discourse and knowledge as discussed comprehensively in his books, articles, and interviews.
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Reilly, Niamh. "Doing Transnational Feminism, Transforming Human Rights: The Emancipatory Possibilities Revisited." Irish Journal of Sociology 19, no. 2 (November 2011): 60–76. http://dx.doi.org/10.7227/ijs.19.2.5.
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This article contributes to cross-disciplinary engagement with the idea of transnationality through a discussion of transnational feminisms. In particular, it reviews and responds to some of the more critical readings of the women's human rights paradigm and its role in underpinning, or not, emancipatory transnational feminisms in a context of increasingly fragmenting globalisation. The author considers two broad categories of critical readings of transnational women's human rights: anti-universalist and praxis-oriented. This includes discussions of recent feminist articulations of the ‘cultural legitimacy thesis’ and ‘vernacularisation’ and of obstacles to contesting the oppressions of neo-liberal globalisation through human rights feminisms. Ultimately, the author argues that the emancipatory possibilities of human rights-oriented transnational feminisms reside in dialogic, solidarity-building feminist praxis tied to transnational processes of counter-hegemonic (re)interpretation and (re)claiming of human rights from previously excluded positions.
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Widyawati, Anis, Pujiyono Pujiyono, and Nur Rochaeti. "Elimination of Sexual Violence in Feminist Legal Theory." Journal of Indonesian Legal Studies 6, no. 2 (November 30, 2021): 333–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.15294/jils.v6i2.48346.
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The closeness of women to poverty shows that development still maintains women's subordination and places women in a marginal position. What is the analysis of the Feminist Legal Theorist (FLT) in the elimination of sexual violence? Feminist Legal Theory (FLT) as one of the streams in Philosophy of Law is one of the schools of thought that was born from the main philosophy of the paradigm of Critical Theory Feminist Legal Theory (FLT) as one of the streams in the paradigm of critical theory. It is used to analyze the complexity of the needs of victims, both women, girls, boys, and girls. The Bill on the Elimination of Sexual Violence uses the Feminist Legal Theory (FLT) as an analysis so that in every norm that is formulated this bill always considers what specific experiences of women, especially victims of sexual violence. Legal protection against the elimination of sexual violence is a form of implementation of the second principle of Pancasila, namely a just and civilized humanity.
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Sulistyawan, Aditya Yuli. "FEMINIST LEGAL THEORY DALAM TELAAH PARADIGMA: SUATU PEMETAAN FILSAFAT HUKUM." Masalah-Masalah Hukum 47, no. 1 (January 30, 2018): 56. http://dx.doi.org/10.14710/mmh.47.1.2018.56-62.
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Feminist Legal Theory (FLT) is a groundbreaking thought against the enactment of the law against women. As one of the schools of thought, the distinctiveness of FLT can not be freely explained. The explanation of this will only be done precisely by the 'umbrella philosophy' called the paradigm. Through the paradigm, FLT will be placed in one paradigm, according to its ontology, epistemology, and methodology. In summary, the purpose of this paper is to create a mapping of legal philosophy to FLT. Based on the discussion, FLT can eventually be mapped as one of the flows within the Critical Theory et. al. paradigm.
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Er, Yanbing. "Anticipations, afterlives: On the temporal and affective reorientations of sexual difference." Feminist Theory 19, no. 3 (February 2, 2018): 369–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1464700118754731.
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This article focuses on the affective potential of anticipation, in its ready endorsement of the unknown, as a formative lens for theorising feminist temporalities. I draw from earlier readings of Luce Irigaray’s conceptual paradigm of sexual difference to examine how its articulation of a feminist future that is inherently unknowable might contribute to recent debates on the temporalities of feminist thought. The article presents two broadly intersecting lines of argument. I first emphasise the continued centrality of sexual difference in its anticipatory imperative for thinking feminism but – or perhaps, especially – through a contradictory retrieval of the term that re-narrates its contemporary significance. In other words, it is precisely the retroactive position that sexual difference occupies that exacts a critical reorientation of existing modes of feminist temporalities; it moreover does so as a theoretical construct that altogether circumvents our understanding of feminism as a progress narrative. Secondly, I build upon Drucilla Cornell’s contentions in Beyond Accommodation that the unknown futurity inaugurated by the trajectories of sexual difference demands a dimension of inquiry that is inevitably aesthetic (1991). I identify a possibility of literature’s reinvigoration in emergence narratives of feminist theorising, particularly in a certain ethical capacity precipitated by its affective experience of enchantment, which mirrors the ‘wonder’ that sexual difference incites. If we are to continue to use literature as a conducive space of feminist analysis, then it is the forward-looking perpetuation of feminist narratives that must also be rethought for their investment in the multiple contingencies of anticipation.
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Šimėnienė, Akvilė. "Feminist Phenomenology in the Criticism of Birutė Ciplijauskaitė." Colloquia 38 (June 30, 2017): 104–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.51554/col.2017.28729.
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This article presents feminist phenomenology, a paradigm within critical philosophy and literary studies that been evolved over the last several decades; the article explores the main circumstances of its development, including the historical contexts and texts that led to its emergence and conceptualisation. The origins of this syncretic approach are associated with the works of Edith Stein, Simone de Beauvoir, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Hannah Arendt. The article discusses feminist phenomenology’s broad, interdisciplinary streams – feminist musicology, theology, philosophy of science, and ethics – and how they use research tools offered by phenomenology.Feminist phenomenology is seen as an approach that challenges disciplinary hermeticism, which holds human experience as the most important object of any analysis.The article surveys the works of the main authors who were actively involved in the process of introducing feminist phenomenology: Sara Heinämaa, Lanei Rodemeyer, Mikko Keskinen, Linda Fisher, María C. López Sáenz, Eva-Maria Simms, Beata Stawarska, Lester Embree, Christina Schües, Dorothea E. Olkowski, Helen A. Fielding, and Anne van Leeuwen.The article presents general research strategies and classifications at the intersection of feminism and phenomenology, most importantly: embodied experience, a critical view of patriarchal structures of power and knowledge, qualitatively new experience, a focus on synaesthesia and a particular emphasis on different types of women’s/female experience. The second half of the article presents the work (in particular several late texts) of the Lithuanian émigré critic Birutė Ciplijauskaitė as an example of feminist phenomenology.
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Hawthorne, Sîan Melvill. "Inhospitable Landscapes." Journal of the British Association for the Study of Religion (JBASR) 19 (April 27, 2018): 36. http://dx.doi.org/10.18792/jbasr.v19i0.15.
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This paper examines Ursula King’s claim in her edited volume Religion and Gender (1995) that introducing feminist gender-critical approaches in the study of religions constitutes a paradigm shift for the field/discipline. I will sketch a broadly positive assessment of how this claim has been borne out, noting the important connection it advances between scholarly subjectivity and disciplinary identity, and drawing attention to the ways in which the working through of the paradigm shift has implied and instantiated a reconfiguration of disciplinary territory. The topological metaphors that underpin the feminist paradigm shift, as well as traditionally disciplinary terrain and transformation more generally, are helpful for examining how knowledge may be structured, taken apart, and remade, creating and remaking a certain kind of disciplinary citizen-subject on the model of the nation state that enables inclusion, but also exclusion. This latter point then leads to a more critical analysis that examines the function of feminist topologies in religious studies and outlining how the solitary focus on gender in the proposed paradigm shift marginalised race and postcolonial terrain, however much it challenged the androcentrism of religious studies. I will thus suggest that in staying true to the vision that King promotes through all of her work on 'religion and gender', the connection between scholarly and disciplinary identity she invokes, and the future she envisions, demands that the unfinished nature of the paradigm shift must be addressed such that an integrated/intersectional model of inclusion and complexity becomes the foundation for work going forward.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Critical feminist paradigm"
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Chambouleyron, Ingrid Cyfer. "A tensão entre modernidade e pós-modernidade na crítica à exclusão no feminismo." Universidade de São Paulo, 2009. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/8/8131/tde-03022010-122141/.
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O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar o projeto de Nancy Fraser de pacificar a chamada guerra de paradigmas na teoria feminista, ou seja, o confronto entre teorias feministas pós-modernas e modernas. Essa análise é feita a partir do debate entre Judith Butler, Seyla Benhabib e Nancy Fraser acerca dos problemas teóricos que emergem das exclusões no movimento feminista, ou seja, da dificuldade de o movimento representar as várias formas de viver a condição feminina, levando em conta as intersecções entre a identidade de gênero, racial, de classe, etc. A intenção de Nancy Fraser é combinar a concepção de sujeito moderno e pósmoderno a fim de somar a desconstrução do sujeito, ou seja, a desnaturalização da identidade feminina com as concepções de igualdade e autonomia que estão presentes no argumento de Benhabib. Essa discussão remete a três tensões conceituais: autonomia e contextualização do sujeito; identidade e reconhecimento da diferença e igualdade e pluralidade. Por fim, concluo que a conciliação entre modernidade e pós-modernidade é problemática porque a concepção de sujeito pós-moderno apresenta desafios teóricos profundos a uma autonomia suficientemente forte para justificar a crítica social. No entanto, isso não significa necessariamente ter de escolher entre poder e autonomia, entre sujeito abstrato e determinado pelo meio. Na concepção de self narrativo de Benhabib, que ela concebe sob a influência do modernismo relutante de Hannah Arendt, encontra-se um modelo de conciliação de poder e autonomia mais promissor para vencer a exclusão no feminismo sem abandonar a identidade coletiva no movimento feminsita.The subject of this thesis is Nancy Frasers attempt to overcome the tension between post-modernism and modernism in the feminist political theory, known as the paradigm war. This attempt is analysed though her debate with Judith Butler and Seyla Benhabib about the theoretical consequences of dealing with the problem of exclusion within the feminist movement. Nancy Fraser intends to combine Judith Butlers conception of the subject with Benhabibs conception of equality. For her, this is the only way to integrate power and autonomy in feminist political theory. This discussion leads to three theoretical tensions: contextualization of the subject and autonomy; identity and recognition of difference, and equality and plurality. My conclusion is that this combination is not possible because the post modern subjet challenges any conception of autonomy that is strong enough to explain and motivate social criticsm. Nevertheless, in Benhabibs conception of self narrative, inspired in the reluctant modernism of Hannah Arendt, we can find a theoretical model that is more adequate to fight the exclusion in feminist movement without abandoning its colletive identity.
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Lymbery, Lisa. "Clearing the boundary: a multilevel analysis of how gendered relations enable female leadership in non-professional cricket." Thesis, 2021. https://vuir.vu.edu.au/42895/.
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Women have traditionally been underrepresented across many areas of sport. Whilst inroads have been made in recent years with increased participation rates, greater media representation, and the professionalisation of many elite women’s sports, one area which has continued to flounder—especially within male dominated sports—is female leadership representation. Whilst research to date has identified numerous gendered barriers which perpetuate the dominance of men in positions of power in sport, little attention has been paid to the enabling factors when women—through natural progression—reach leadership roles.
Through an intersectional critical feminist lens, this thesis identifies the gendered enablers for nine females who hold leadership positions within non-professional cricket clubs in the Melbourne metropolitan area. A multilevel analysis of interviews and observations, utilising the theories of Pierre Bourdieu and Raewyn Connell, identifies four core themes. The findings will reveal that no one theme enables these female leaders, rather all four work in concert. Additionally, the interplay between each of the women and the enablers alters from one woman to another, and from one field to another. The implications drawn from this research point to a need to adopt new research approaches in the female leadership underrepresentation in sport space going forward.
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"Diné Research Practices and Protocols: An Intersectional Paradigm Incorporating Indigenous Feminism, Critical Indigenous Research Methodologies and Diné Knowledge Systems." Doctoral diss., 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.57444.
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This dissertation examines the role of tribal sovereignty and self-determination in research for Diné participants and elders from 1956-1986. The qualitative historical research study explored the following questions: How has past research been conducted on the Navajo Nation? What is the role of sovereignty and self-determination in research and research methodology for Diné peoples? And, how might Diné philosophy inform a research methodology that aligns with cultural protocols and practices? Six elders who participated in research from 1956-1986 participated in in-depth interviews about their experiences. Using Sa’ąh Naaghái Bik’eh Hozhǫ̨̨́ǫ́n and related Diné philosophy models, findings of this study inform an Indigenous elder knowledge protection model (i.e. Nihookáá’ Diné Nidoolkah Bindii’ą’) to support existing Diné tribal IRB protocols and policies and provides additional insight for tribal cultural protection organizations. Lastly, the researcher presents a Diné intersectional methodology for future research.Dissertation/Thesis
Doctoral Dissertation Social Justice and Human Rights 2020
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Marufu, Tapiwa Dadirai. "Exploring the effect of male child sexual abuse on a sample of men in Zimbabwe." Diss., 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/26752.
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Several studies suggest that sexual assaults are experienced differently by males than by
females. In dominant discourses in which sexual perpetration is associated with males and
sexual victimisation with females, males are expected to practice and exhibit hegemonic
masculinity. This gendered perception of sexual assaults means that female perpetration of
male child sexual abuse often goes unrecognised and that male perpetration is particularly
problematic for male victims. Using a feminist critical paradigm and critical discourse analysis
as a research design, this study explored how a sample of male victims in Zimbabwe
experienced sexual abuse as children and how they were affected by it. The study, further,
explored how the male victims of childhood sexual abuse sought to reconcile the experience
of victimisation with their identity as males. Nine men participated in the study. The sample
was, due to the sensitive nature of the topic, purposively selected using letters describing the
nature of the study and inviting participation. The letters were distributed through diverse
channels, including a newspaper with national coverage. Most participants reported
experiences of female perpetrated abuse. The study found that, in keeping with dominant
discourses of hegemonic masculinity, the participants struggled to construct themselves as
victims. Many of the participants were considerably and negatively affected by having been
sexually abused. Participants utilised a variety of methods to come to terms with the fact that
they were males who had been victimised.Psychology
M.A. (Psychology)
Books on the topic "Critical feminist paradigm"
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Russo, Ann. Feminist Accountability. NYU Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814777169.001.0001.
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The book is divided into three sections: The first section, Cultivating Feminist Accountability, explores practices of accountability that embrace critical engagement of the power lines that shape our identities, relationships, and communities as we engage in feminist movement building and social change. The second section, Building Community Accountability and Transformative Justice, explores the concept and practice of community accountability and transformative justice within the context of U.S.-based feminist antiviolence movements. It introduces the feminist-of-color led efforts to shift from the dominant paradigm of institutionalized social services and carceral legal reform to community-based support, intervention, accountability, and transformation. The third section, (Re)Imagining Feminist Solidarity Politics, explores how a framework of feminist accountability can serve to disrupt and disentangle US-based feminist storytelling about the issues facing women of the global south from US imperial logics. Such a shift is essential for making visible the deep and historic relationship between and across these global divides and for creating possibilities for a solidarity based in mutuality, reciprocity and respect.
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McNay, Lois. The Gender of Critical Theory. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198857747.001.0001.
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Frankfurt School Critical Theory describes itself as an unmasking critique of power, but it has surprisingly little to say about major structural oppressions, including gender. In diagnosing what is wrong with the world, it claims to be guided by the experiences of oppressed groups. Yet, in practice, it pays little heed to these experiences. This book shows how these oversights and tensions stem from the preoccupation with normative foundations that has dominated Frankfurt School theory since Habermas and has given rise to a mode of paradigm-led inquiry that undermines an effective critique of oppression. The assumption of paradigm-led inquiry that too strong a focus on lived experience has parochializing effects on theory stands in tension with the idea that emancipatory critique ought to be primarily concerned with exposing the situation of oppressed groups. This book offers a reconfigured account of context transcendence as the critical insight afforded not by a monist interpretative paradigm but by reasoning dialogically across experiential and theoretical perspectives. By bringing feminist work on gender to bear on Frankfurt School critical theory, it argues that, far from stymying emancipatory critique, attentiveness to the experiences of oppressed groups is one of its enabling conditions. Combining feminist ideas with inherent but underutilized resources in the Frankfurt School tradition, this book proposes the idea of critique as theorizing from experience.
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Scuriatti, Laura. Mina Loy's Critical Modernism. University Press of Florida, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813056302.001.0001.
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In Mina Loy’s Critical Modernism, Laura Scuriatti argues that Loy’s corpus of works produces a kind of “critical” modernism, making the case that Loy’s corpus exhibits a skeptical, detached attitude toward its own simultaneous celebration and criticism of modernist aesthetic paradigms. Most modernist works are self-reflexive in this regard, but Loy’s corpus creates for itself a space of dis-affiliation, which combines critique with self-critique, rather than forging a space of rebellion and antagonism. Scuriatti investigates the notions of the masterpiece and the sacred art object, especially in their relation to the market; the figure of the author and the value of authorship; the embattled relationship between art and politics; the artwork's relationship to national language, identity and rootlessness. Scuriatti provides a new, in-depth investigation of specific aspects of the Florentine and Italian context in particular, which have so far been neglected by scholarship. Specifically, attention is devoted to the Florentine avant-garde journal Lacerba, and to the works of Giovanni Papini, Ada Negri and Enif Robert. The volume presents new insights into Loy’s feminism and argues that her texts respond to the rewriting of Otto Weininger’s then widely influential theories in the magazine Lacerba. Drawing on Adriana Cavarero’s, Luisa Muraro’s and Teresa de Lauretis’s claims, this study also rethinks the concept of eccentricity, conceived not as “aberrant”, but as consciously anti-normative, anti-idealistic and self-critical, in relation to modernist aesthetics. It shows that Loy’s texts present dialogic, “narratable,” “eccentric” selves and subjectivities, which create uncomfortable critical spaces within modernism as a broad movement.
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Harel-Shalev, Ayelet, and Shir Daphna-Tekoah. Breaking the Binaries in Security Studies. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190072582.001.0001.
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The book focuses on the study of women combat soldiers in the fields of Security Studies and International Relations. It addresses this issue by bringing the soldiers’ voices and silences to the forefront of research in these domains and by presenting the women soldiers as narrators. The book introduces a theoretical framework in Critical Security Studies for understanding—by binary deconstructions of the terms used in these fields—the integration of women soldiers into combat and combat-support roles and the challenges they face. The book draws on Feminist IR scholarship and introduces an interdisciplinary theoretical perspective that aims to lead scholars to consider why and how women’s experiences should be incorporated into the analysis of violence, state violence, combat trauma, security, and insecurity. The book therefore emphasizes the importance of including, in critical approaches to security, the understudied topic of the voices of women in combat. The book explores the voices and silences of women who served in combat roles in the Israeli Defense Forces. The analysis, however, extends beyond the Israeli case insofar as the book offers important general insights into the larger issues of the links between war and gender, body and gender, trauma and gender, and politics and gender. It also raises methodological considerations about ways of evaluating power relations in conflict situations and patriarchal structures. The binary deconstructions discussed in the book offer a paradigm shift in Security Studies and Conflict Studies.
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Couti, Jacqueline. Sex, Sea, and Self. Liverpool University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.3828/liverpool/9781800859944.001.0001.
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Sex, Sea, and Self excavates forgotten voices and their layered discourses to underscore the complexity of identity politics in the French Caribbean between 1924 and 1948. This study looks at a time of chaotic transition and renewed conflict to transform our understanding of Francophone literary canons. An emphasis on women’s experiences and feminine authorship, for instance, insists on the significance of theoretical contributions by French Antillean women intellectuals to the domain of Caribbean critical theory. However, this study also offers original approaches to works by male authors of African descent. Putting in contrast Suzanne Lacascade’s, the Nardal sisters’, Mayotte Capécia’s, Jenny Alpha’s, Sully Lara’s, and Raphaël Tardon’s visions of Black humanism, history, knowledge construction, and selfhood reveals their conflicted rhetorics and performance, the ambivalent, slippery, and contradictory beliefs at the heart of their texts. These writers at times both reject and reproduce the metropolitan or white Creole exotic colonial mythology of Creole women and sexual stereotypes for their own political, cultural, and personal ends. Teasing out the politics of eroticism and the rhetoric of victimization in the expression of nation-building exposes the epistemic complicity between Black and white, colonial, and postcolonial discourses. Indeed, the social fabric of the twentieth century owes much to that of the nineteenth century, into which white Creole ideology and colonial discourse were woven. Sex, Sea, and Self (re)calibrates the canon of French Caribbean literature underpinning Caribbean critical theory, colonial history, and literary aesthetics, which allows for the exploration of novel paradigms of selfhood.
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Beck, Robert J., and Henry F. Carey. Teaching International Law. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.309.
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The international law (IL) course offers a unique opportunity for students to engage in classroom debate on crucial topics ranging from the genocide in Darfur, the Israeli–Palestinian issue, or peace processes in Sri Lanka. A well-designed IL course can help students to appreciate their own preconceptions and biases and to develop a more nuanced and critical sense of legality. During the Cold War, IL became increasingly marginalized as a result of the perceived failure of international institutions to avert World War II and the concurrent ascent of realism as IR’s predominant theoretical paradigm. Over the past two decades, however, as IL’s profile has soared considerably, political scientists and students have taken a renewed interest in the subject. Today, IL teaching/study remains popular in law schools. As a general practice, most instructors of IL, both in law schools or undergraduate institutions, begin their course designs by selecting readings on basic legal concepts and principles. Once the basic subject matter and associated reading assignments have been determined, instructors typically move on to develop their syllabi, which may cover a variety of topics such as interdisciplinary methods, IL theory, cultural relativism, formality vs informality, identity politics, law and economics/public choice, feminism, legal realism, and reformism/modernism. There are several innovative approaches for teaching IL, including moot courts, debates, simulations, clinical learning, internships, legal research training, and technology-enhanced teaching. Another important component of IL courses is assessment of learning outcomes, and a typical approach is to administer end-of-semester essay-based examinations.
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McManus, Laurie. Brahms in the Priesthood of Art. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190083274.001.0001.
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Brahms in the Priesthood of Art: Gender and Art Religion in the Nineteenth-Century German Musical Imagination explores the intersection of gender, art religion (Kunstreligion), and other aesthetic currents in Brahms reception of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In particular, it focuses on the theme of the self-sacrificing musician devoted to his art, or “priest of music,” with its quasi-mystical and German Romantic implications of purity seemingly at odds with the lived reality of Brahms’s bourgeois existence. While such German Romantic notions of art religion informed the thinking on musical purity and performance, after the failed socio-political revolutions of 1848/49, and in the face of scientific developments, the very concept of musical priesthood was questioned as outmoded. Furthermore, its essential gender ambiguity, accommodating such performing mothers as Clara Schumann and Amalie Joachim, could explain why Brahms never married while leaving the composer open to speculation about his health and masculinity. Supportive critics combined elements of masculine and feminine values with a muddled rhetoric of prophets, messiahs, martyrs, and other art-religious stereotypes to account for the special status of Brahms and his circle. Detractors tended to locate these stereotypes in more modern, fin-de-siècle psychological frameworks that scrutinized the composer’s physical and mental well-being. In analyzing these receptions side by side, this book revises the accepted image of Brahms, recovering lost ambiguities in his reception. It resituates him not only in a romanticized priesthood of art but also within the cultural and gendered discourses overlooked by the absolute music paradigm.
Book chapters on the topic "Critical feminist paradigm"
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Guilló-Arakistain, Miren. "Challenging Menstrual Normativity: Nonessentialist Body Politics and Feminist Epistemologies of Health." In The Palgrave Handbook of Critical Menstruation Studies, 869–83. Singapore: Springer Singapore, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0614-7_63.
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Abstract Guilló-Arakistain examines the ways in which alternative politics of menstruation are challenging the paradigm of sexual dimorphism and heteronormativity. She does this through consideration of discourses which challenge the ideology of menstrual normativity and the rigid, hegemonic, medical, and pathological approaches to the western biomedical vision of menstruation. Guilló-Arakistain links these discourses to specific bodies, incorporating experiences of non-menstruating cisgender women as well as transgender menstruators. It is necessary, she asserts, to dispense with the idea that menstruation is determinative of a very specific gender and social identity and the subsequent normative and reductionist take on menstrual experience (and more generally human experience).
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Méndez Baiges, Maite. "Introduction. An Archaeology of Modernism." In Les Demoiselles d'Avignon and Modernism, 11–22. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-5518-656-8.02.
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The book meticulously analyses the history of the critical reception of avantguard art through the interpretations received by one of its greatest emblems, Les Demoiselles d'Avignon by Picasso, 1907. Since Les Demoiselles has been considered over this century the true paradigm of Modern Art, this book is, fundamentally, a sort of synthesis of the discourses about Modernism from formalism, iconology, Leo Steinberg's 'Other Criteria’, sociological, the biographical and psychoanalytical theses, cultural and historicist and lastly, the impact of post-structuralism and the feminist, post-colonialist and transnational interpretations. The final chapter deals with the artistic versions of Les Demoiselles d'Avignon made by artists. It is an essay on the different versions and identities of Modern Art and Modernism that have been produced throughout the last century.
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Gargallo, Francesca. "Philosophical Feminism in Latin America." In Theories of the Flesh, translated by Erika Grimm and Kevin Cedeño-Pacheco, 97–122. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190062965.003.0007.
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This chapter offers a critical survey of feminism in Latin America, highlighting the contributions of prominent Latin American feminists in art, politics, and philosophy. The essay begins with a discussion of the pioneering feminist ideas of Juana Inés de la Cruz and their reception in Latin American feminist thought; and it continues with an elucidation of contemporary feminist critiques of the neoliberal paradigm of “multiculturalism.” The chapter also discusses how, around 1995, Latin American feminism became split in the academy: on the one hand, there were those Latin American feminists who favored the strategy of diversifying the curriculum and including gender issues within the existing institutional and academic frameworks; and, on the other hand, there were those Latin American feminists who favored a more subversive strategy of ignoring traditional forms of academic recognition and privileging the engaged thought and action of the women’s movement.
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McNay, Lois. "Introduction." In The Gender of Critical Theory, 1–22. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198857747.003.0001.
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This chapter briefly surveys the relationship between Frankfurt School critique and feminism. It summarizes the book’s main claim that despite declaring itself to be fundamentally concerned with a critique of oppression, Frankfurt School theory has little of substance to say about gender subordination. Instead of analysing real-world dynamics of oppression, Frankfurt School thinkers tend to concentrate on issues of normative foundation and context transcendence. This foundational turn has given rise to a mode of ‘paradigm-led theorizing’ that blocks an adequate diagnosis of power, exemplified in the tokenistic treatment of gender oppression. A model of experience-led theorizing is proposed as an alternative to paradigm-led thought and it is argued that feminist theory, both within and beyond the Frankfurt School, is an indispensable exemplar of such an approach. The chapter structure of the book is also laid out.
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McNay, Lois. "Unmasking Power." In The Gender of Critical Theory, 23–61. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198857747.003.0002.
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This chapter establishes the centrality of direct experiential understanding to an unmasking critique of oppression. It argues that attentiveness to the lived experience of oppressed groups is a necessary theoretical and political entailment of the Frankfurt School’s claim that unmasking critique aims to make a practical contribution to their struggles for emancipation. Frankfurt School theory not only fails to attend to the lived reality of oppressed groups, but it is marked by a distinct retreat from experience because of the supposed parochializing effects it is held to have on critique. To offset such parochialism, Frankfurt School theorists have concentrated on issues of normative foundation and context transcendence. This foundational turn has given rise to a mode of ‘paradigm-led theorizing’ that prevents Frankfurt School theorists developing an adequate diagnosis of oppression, exemplified here in their tokenistic treatment of gender oppression. Paradigm-led theorizing also prevents them from realizing the dialogical and reflexive aspects of their theoretical practice, qua practical emancipatory thought. This chapter proposes a model of experience-led theorizing as an alternative to paradigm-led thought and draws on other types of radical theory, notably black feminist theory, to illustrate what this entails. Relativizing lived experience to power allows it to be recast as an indispensable source of knowledge for unmasking critique. It also serves to reconfigure context transcendence in dialogical terms as the insight that comes from reasoning across theoretical and experiential perspectives rather than, pace the Frankfurt School, the definitive viewpoint afforded by a monist paradigm.
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McNay, Lois. "Critique and the ‘Merely Experienced’." In The Gender of Critical Theory, 156–90. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198857747.003.0006.
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This chapter examines Nancy Fraser’s influential writing which, in contrast to the tokenistic approaches of her peers, has been instrumental in moving gender concerns to the heart of critical theory of oppression. In so doing, she has formulated an innovative multidimensional typology of power which, unlike mono-categorial paradigms, is capable of explaining intersectional dynamics of oppression. Likewise, her model of justice as participatory parity rests on a pluralized, ‘neopragmatist’ account of normative reasoning that finds emancipatory responses embedded in concrete situations and hence resonates with the work of other feminist theorists on gender inequality in a global context. However, as ground-breaking as it has been in foregrounding issues of gender oppression and developing a non-monist approach to critique, Fraser’s work is arguably limited by her residual attachment to a certain aspect of paradigm-led theorizing. This is evident in the way she downgrades the value of an experiential perspective for critique and consequently fails to fully think through certain epistemological implications of reasoning dialogically with disempowered interlocutors. Instead, working largely within the normative space of justification, Fraser tends to accord definitive adjudicative authority to the theoretical perspective, qua critique, over the experiential one. This epistemic hierarchy is inconsistent with her claims that critique embodies dialogical and reflexive reasoning as well as narrowing the normative function of radical critique to one of adjudication.
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"Recovering from ‘yo mama is so stupid’: (en)gendering a critical paradigm on Black feminist theory and pedagogy." In Using Critical Research for Educational and Social Change, 129–46. Routledge, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315540061-14.
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Russo, Ann. "Shifting Paradigms to End Violence." In Feminist Accountability, 85–109. NYU Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814777169.003.0005.
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This chapter explores feminist-of-color led efforts to shift the feminist-informed and institutionalized approach to sexual and intimate violence that is now practiced in social service and legal advocacy agencies, with an exclusive reliance on the criminal legal system as a method of accountability for the perpetuation of violence. Since the early 2000s, the critical engagement of this institutionalization gained momentum with the innovative approaches of community accountability and transformative justice that (re)politicize feminist work to end violence. In this chapter, I illustrate how community accountability and transformative justice approaches shift the focus and direction of antiviolence efforts from social services and legal advocacy to community-based movement building, from viewing violence as a problem of individual conflict to one rooted in systems of oppression, from agency expertise to community-based knowledge and leadership, and from punishment to accountability. In the chapter, I draw from the work of many scholars, community organizers, and activists as well as projects and organizations.
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Coggeshall, John M. "Shifting Paradigms." In Liberia, South Carolina, 1–24. University of North Carolina Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469640853.003.0001.
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This chapter places the story of Liberia in an academic context. A Prologue outlines the book’s major themes. A review of the historical, anthropological, sociological, philosophical, and critical black feminist theory literature contextualizes the story of Liberia for an academic audience. Liberia is an example of African American resistance, resilience, and agency -- a “freedom colony” similar to others in the US and world. The chapter also summarizes and critiques the methods and sources used for the book.
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MOREIRA, ALICIA, and MARIANA BRASIL RAMOS. "A AUSÊNCIA DAS EPISTEMOLOGIAS FEMINISTAS NA EDUCAÇÃO EM CIÊNCIAS E BIOLOGIA." In Itinerários de resistência: pluralidade e laicidade no Ensino de Ciências e Biologia. Editora Realize, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.46943/viii.enebio.2021.01.008.
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AS TEORIAS FEMINISTAS, TEM GANHADO CADA VEZ MAIS ESPAÇO E VISIBILIDADE DENTRO E FORA DOS CAMPOS ACADÊMICOS. TAL FENÔMENO SE DEVE A LONGA LUTA DAS MULHERES, QUE BUSCAM, DENTRO DE UM SISTEMA PATRIARCAL, EXPLICITAR E COMBATER AS OPRESSÕES DE GÊNERO. MESMO TENDO CONQUISTADO ESSES ESPAÇOS, OS PRINCIPAIS DEBATES CIENTÍFICOS NOS ESPAÇOS ACADÊMICOS (E FORA DELES) AINDA SÃO PAUTADOS MAJORITARIAMENTE POR PUBLICAÇÕES MASCULINAS, FATO QUE REPRODUZ UMA REALIDADE DE INVISIBILIZAÇÃO DAS PESQUISADORAS NAS UNIVERSIDADES. NESTE ARTIGO DISCUTIREMOS UM BREVE HISTÓRICO DOS MOVIMENTOS DE MULHERES E COMO CRITICA FEMINISTA CONSOLIDOU NOVOS PARADIGMA NOS CAMPOS ACADÊMICOS.