Realism, Deconstruction and the Feminist Standpoint
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8975481 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Caroline New (Bath Spa University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1998 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 349-372 |
| Publication date | 1998-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0021-8308 • E-ISSN: 1468-5914 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-5914.00080 |
| OpenAlex | W2083202578 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 37 |
| References cited | 29 |
Feminist Standpoint Theory claims that by virtue of their social positioning women have access to, or can achieve, particular and/or better knowledge of gendered social relations. The epistemology, various versions of which are reviewed in the paper, has been criticised for over homogenising women. In its simplest form this critique claims that women’s diversity rules out communality and collective interests, and that FST unawarely takes white middle class Western women as representative. In its stronger, postructuralist form this critique undermines feminism by reducing the category ‘women’ to an effect of discourse whose referent is, and should be, constantly shifting. The paper argues for the reality of sex difference and puts forward a realist defence of a modified Feminist Standpoint Theory
Deconstruction (building · Diversity (politics · Epistemology · Feminism · Feminist philosophy · Realism · Referent · Sociology · Virtue · Anthropology · Feminism, Gender, and Sexuality Studies · Gender Studies · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Philosophy
Luce Irigaray and the philosophy of sexual difference
Feminism and Science, Feminist Epistemology
Critical Realism and Post-Structuralist Feminism
Developing a Critical Realist Positional Approach to Intersectionality
Critical realism and post-structuralist feminism
Feminist Standpoints and Critical Realism. The Contested Materiality of Difference in Intersectionality and New Materialism
Making realism work, from second wave feminism to extinction rebellion
Area Studies/Asian Studies
Being undisciplined. On Your Marx
Political Science/Political Theory
Area Studies/Asian Studies
Anthropology
Philosophy and Critical Realism
Philosophy and Standpoint Theory
Sociology
Sociology and Economics
Landscapes of the Soul
Ontologia e gênero
Experiences of Two-Spirit Lesbian and Gay Native Americans
Comparações odiosas
Critical Realist and Postpositivist Realist Feminisms
Scientific Autonomy, Academic Freedom, and Social Research in the United States
Synthesizing Feminist and Critical Realist Approaches to Housing Studies
Fit and phat
Feminism, Realism, and Universalism
Women's Work, Dirty Work
I. In Search of the Self
Constructing a Feminist Identity
Do women ask the same questions as men in social sciences
Vergleichende Soziologie, kritischer Realismus und Reflexivität
Women Living in a Homeless Shelter
Oppressed and Oppressors? The Systematic Mistreatment of Men
Can't Live with 'Em; Can't Live without 'Em
Odious Comparisons
The Feminist Question in Realism
Social structures, power and resistance in monist sociology
Feminist Perspectives on Erikson 's Theory
Deceptive distinctions
Destabilizing theory
Whose Science? Whose Knowledge?
"Comment on Hekman's "Truth and Method
"Comment on Hekman's "Truth and Method
Is there a Feminist Method
The Feminist Standpoint
Feminist encounters
Disciplining Foucault
Black Feminist Thought
‘Bodies that Matter’
Gender Trouble
Feminism and Deconstruction
Feminist Standpoint Theory and the Problems of Knowledge Texts, Facts, and Femininity
Women and Social Class
Feminist Thought
The Multiple Realities of Sameness and Difference
The Everyday World as Problematic
Essentialism, Social Constructionism, and beyond
Social Criticism without Philosophy
Feminism and Epistemology
Women's Perspective as a Radical Critique of Sociology
Truth and Method
Feminist History after the Linguistic Turn
Baboons with Briefcases
Cultural Feminism versus Post-Structuralism
Postmodernism and Gender Relations in Feminist Theory
The Instability of the Analytical Categories of Feminist Theory
| Unique citing works | 37 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,37 |
| Citation span | 1999 - 2024 (26) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 36 |