Laura Gillman
Biographic Data
| ID | 645762 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laura Gillman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laura |
| FAMILY NAME | Gillman |
| SIGNATURE | GILLMAN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Virginia Tech |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Critical Realist and Postpositivist Realist Feminisms
Current inquiries into the meaning of feminist concepts, such as the third world woman worker, seek to explain contemporary social relations of global capitalism within the context of the legacy of post-colonialist structures. At the same time, these very concepts draw attention to the limitations of language to adequately approximate the world as it is in order to capture some truth about its categorical entities, in particular, about the embodi…
Inter-American Encounters in the Travel and Migration Narratives of Mayra Montero and Cristina García
This essay merges scholarship on coloniality and hemispheric theories to elaborate a hemispheric decolonial feminism. I adopt this approach to illustrate how two Cuban exile writers, Mayra Montero and Cristina García, located at different sites in the hemisphere, create narratives that expose and provide positive alternatives to Western knowledge systems and their mechanisms for reproducing asymmetrical power relations in the Americas. A comparat…
Anancyism and the Dialectics of an Africana Feminist Ethnophilosophy
Although intersectionality has been widely disseminated across the disciplines as a tool to center women of color's developed perspectives on social reality, it has been notably absent in the scholarship of feminist philosophy and philosophy of race. I first examine the causes and processes of the exclusions of women of color feminist thought more generally, and of intersectionality in particular. Then, focusing attention on Black feminisms, I re…
Narrative as a Resource for Feminist Practices of Socially Engaged Inquiry
Against the view that the physical sciences should be the privileged source of reliable knowledge within the academy in general, and in philosophy in particular, this essay argues that an interdisciplinary approach to knowledge‐production, one that includes social and psychological assessment as well as narrative analysis, can better capture the diverse range of human epistemic activities as they occur in their natural settings. Postpositivist ep…
Beyond the Shadow
This essay examines racial scripts as indicators of differentiated gender-race formations, expressed through a double-voiced discourse. White feminists deploy scripts to disaffiliate from a universalized gender but at the same time deny racial difference in order to maintain a coherent narrative of oppression based on gender. Feminists of color, on the contrary, adopt a double-voiced discourse in order to dismantle a false unity that depends on d…
"The Whole Story is What I'm After"
Using the methods of biomythography and emancipatory historioriography, we will illustrate the ways in which black and white women have wrestled with the contradictions that liminality poses for past, present, and future relations; we will analyze the situations that have caused black and white women to become imbricated in such an ideology, either as perpetrators or victims of such perpetration; and we will examine the ways in which black and wh…
Subverting Forced Identities, Violent Acts, and the Narrativity of Race
This article explores the making of Black women's radical subjectivity in Black women's writings. Black women's radical subjectivity shatters the boundaries of geopolitical spaces traditionally defined through citizenship while creating alternative social imaginaries that represent a space where home and belongingness may be attained and self-determination realized. It is from the examination of Black women's textualities that one can detect an u…
Con un pie a cada lado/With a Foot in Each Place
Critical Realist and Postpositivist Realist Feminisms
Current inquiries into the meaning of feminist concepts, such as the third world woman worker, seek to explain contemporary social relations of global capitalism within the context of the legacy of post-colonialist structures. At the same time, these very concepts draw attention to the limitations of language to adequately approximate the world as it is in order to capture some truth about its categorical entities, in particular, about the embodi…
Anancyism and the Dialectics of an Africana Feminist Ethnophilosophy
Although intersectionality has been widely disseminated across the disciplines as a tool to center women of color's developed perspectives on social reality, it has been notably absent in the scholarship of feminist philosophy and philosophy of race. I first examine the causes and processes of the exclusions of women of color feminist thought more generally, and of intersectionality in particular. Then, focusing attention on Black feminisms, I re…
Beyond the Shadow
This essay examines racial scripts as indicators of differentiated gender-race formations, expressed through a double-voiced discourse. White feminists deploy scripts to disaffiliate from a universalized gender but at the same time deny racial difference in order to maintain a coherent narrative of oppression based on gender. Feminists of color, on the contrary, adopt a double-voiced discourse in order to dismantle a false unity that depends on d…
Con un pie a cada lado/With a Foot in Each Place
Con un pie a cada lado/With a Foot in Each Place
Subverting Forced Identities, Violent Acts, and the Narrativity of Race
This article explores the making of Black women's radical subjectivity in Black women's writings. Black women's radical subjectivity shatters the boundaries of geopolitical spaces traditionally defined through citizenship while creating alternative social imaginaries that represent a space where home and belongingness may be attained and self-determination realized. It is from the examination of Black women's textualities that one can detect an u…
"The Whole Story is What I'm After"
Using the methods of biomythography and emancipatory historioriography, we will illustrate the ways in which black and white women have wrestled with the contradictions that liminality poses for past, present, and future relations; we will analyze the situations that have caused black and white women to become imbricated in such an ideology, either as perpetrators or victims of such perpetration; and we will examine the ways in which black and wh…
Beyond the Shadow
This essay examines racial scripts as indicators of differentiated gender-race formations, expressed through a double-voiced discourse. White feminists deploy scripts to disaffiliate from a universalized gender but at the same time deny racial difference in order to maintain a coherent narrative of oppression based on gender. Feminists of color, on the contrary, adopt a double-voiced discourse in order to dismantle a false unity that depends on d…
Narrative as a Resource for Feminist Practices of Socially Engaged Inquiry
Against the view that the physical sciences should be the privileged source of reliable knowledge within the academy in general, and in philosophy in particular, this essay argues that an interdisciplinary approach to knowledge‐production, one that includes social and psychological assessment as well as narrative analysis, can better capture the diverse range of human epistemic activities as they occur in their natural settings. Postpositivist ep…
Anancyism and the Dialectics of an Africana Feminist Ethnophilosophy
Although intersectionality has been widely disseminated across the disciplines as a tool to center women of color's developed perspectives on social reality, it has been notably absent in the scholarship of feminist philosophy and philosophy of race. I first examine the causes and processes of the exclusions of women of color feminist thought more generally, and of intersectionality in particular. Then, focusing attention on Black feminisms, I re…
Inter-American Encounters in the Travel and Migration Narratives of Mayra Montero and Cristina García
This essay merges scholarship on coloniality and hemispheric theories to elaborate a hemispheric decolonial feminism. I adopt this approach to illustrate how two Cuban exile writers, Mayra Montero and Cristina García, located at different sites in the hemisphere, create narratives that expose and provide positive alternatives to Western knowledge systems and their mechanisms for reproducing asymmetrical power relations in the Americas. A comparat…
Critical Realist and Postpositivist Realist Feminisms
Current inquiries into the meaning of feminist concepts, such as the third world woman worker, seek to explain contemporary social relations of global capitalism within the context of the legacy of post-colonialist structures. At the same time, these very concepts draw attention to the limitations of language to adequately approximate the world as it is in order to capture some truth about its categorical entities, in particular, about the embodi…
Sociology (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Art (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Narrative (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Dialectic (3 works)