The Voice and the Listener
Feminist Theory and the Sociological Canon
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12835586 |
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| Authors | Miriam Adelman (0000-0003-4482-2578, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 549-574 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asian journal of social science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1568-4849 • E-ISSN: 2212-3857 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1163/156853103322895379 |
| OpenAlex | W2046396988 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
This paper discusses the relationship between feminist theory and the contemporaneous efforts to re-think basic sociological categories occurring in the aftermath of the 1960s' social movements, primarily in the US and Europe. I examine the questions that were being asked by both feminist thinkers and several major sociological theorists (Richard Sennett, Alain Touraine and Anthony Giddens). I attempt to evaluate the extent to which the latter were initially, and in later work, willing or interested in hearing and incorporating feminist voices in their re-thinking of the field. I identify a tendency to circumscribe feminist contributions to particular substantive areas - those related specifically to gender, or to sexuality, subjectivity and personal life - with, as Susan Bordo has pointed out, much less receptivity to feminist theorists' contributions to more general "cultural critique" and issues which are considered to be "macro-level". I also engage in a brief discussion of how these problems have been reproduced in Brazilian social sciences and the uneasy relationship between feminist scholarship and academic sociology in Brazil today
Epistemology · Feminism · Feminist philosophy · Feminist theory · Field (mathematics · Human sexuality · Political science · Scholarship · Social science · Sociological theory · Sociology · Subjectivity · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender Studies · Law · Management and Organizational Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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