Exploring the Notion of Experience in Feminist Thought

Bibliographic Data

ID2137453
AuthorsD Mulinari (0000-0001-7121-125X, Lund University), Kerstin Sandell Diana Mulinari (corresponding author), Kerstin Sandell (Linköping University)
Year1999
Volume42
Issue4
Pages287-297
Publication date1999-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueActa Sociologica (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0001-6993 • E-ISSN: 1502-3869
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/000169939904200401
OpenAlexW2097622002
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited23

Why is the notion of experience so relevant for feminist theory? How has the concept been used and by whom? What are the theoretical and political implications of postmodern theory for a re-thinking of the concept? In these pages we will explore the uses and abuses of the concept of experience in contemporary feminist thought through the works of influential feminist intellectuals. This article has two aims. The first is to create a theoretical space for reflection and re-appraisal of the concept of experience inspired by Dorothy Smith's contribution to feminist sociology. The second is to shift these debates from the periphery to the centre of sociology by taking into account the centrality of the concept for the discipline

Aesthetics · Centrality · Epistemology · Feminism · Feminist philosophy · Feminist theory · Politics · Postmodernism · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Gender Studies · Historical Gender and Feminism Studies · Law · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics