Reflexivity and women’s agency
A critical realist morphogenetic exploration of the life experience of Sri Lankan women
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8091962 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lakshman Wimalasena (0000-0003-1840-9675, Heriot-Watt University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 383-401 |
| Publication date | 2017-07-10 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Critical Realism (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1476-7430 • E-ISSN: 1572-5138 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14767430.2017.1346988 |
| OpenAlex | W2735840282 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 16 |
| References cited | 44 |
While the vital contribution of feminist scholarship is acknowledged, it has been criticized for overly relying on the influence of society upon women’s lives. In this paper, I demonstrate the usefulness of also considering the influence of agency upon women’s lives, specifically agential reflexivity. Using the work and life histories of a group of Sri Lankan women, I use Margaret Archer’s morphogenetic approach to show how investigating reflexivity can provide greater insights into the subtleties associated with women’s agency in relation to how they consciously (but fallibly) organize their life journeys and react to oppression, demonstrate resistance and effect emancipation. My research reveals latent aspects of women’s agency within a postcolonial Third World social context, where an enduring patriarchal social system intersects with modernity and subjects women to complex social and occupational circumstances. This paper contributes to the field of women’s studies by showing how the morphogenetic approach can address the problem of conflationary theorizing within feminist scholarship
Agency (philosophy · Context (archaeology · Emancipation · Oppression · Political science · Politics · Reflexivity · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Critical Realism in Sociology · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Gender Studies · Law
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| Unique citing works | 16 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,29 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |