A Feminist Epistemology

Sprague, Joey; Kobrynowicz, Diane

doi:10.1007/0-387-36218-5_2

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“…Feminist sociologists have critiqued such dualistic notions of socially constructed categories (Connell, 1999; Sprague & Kobrynowicz, 1999). For example, Thorne (1994, 1997) conducted an ethnographic study in which school‐age children manifested dichotomous gender displays, such as a masculine hair style or a feminine style of clothing.…”

Section: Deconstructing Theories Of Gendermentioning

confidence: 99%

Toward a Dialectical Model of Family Gender Discourse: Body, Identity, and Sexuality

Blume

2003

J of Marriage and Family

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ࡗ Toward a Dialectical Model of Family GenderDiscourse: Body, Identity, and SexualityThe goal of this article is to propose a dialectical model representing gender discourse in families. A brief review of literature in sociology, psychology, and gender studies focuses on three dialectical issues: nature versus culture, similarity versus difference, and stability versus fluidity. Deconstructing gender theories from a postmodern feminist perspective, the authors discuss agency and context in families' gender discourse. Narrative excerpts from interviews with an adolescent daughter and her mother illustrate three emergent themes in the social construction of gender: body, identity, and sexuality. The article concludes with recommendations for family researchers.

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Section: Deconstructing Theories Of Gendermentioning

confidence: 99%

Toward a Dialectical Model of Family Gender Discourse: Body, Identity, and Sexuality

Blume

2003

J of Marriage and Family

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“…These findings are in alignment with previous research (Byers et al 2008;Ballard & Gross 2009;El-Shaieb & Wurtele 2009;Elliott 2010;Wilson et al 2010;Stone et al 2013;Martin & Torres 2014). However, these findings built on previous research in three ways: (1) we illustrated how the findings are in alignment with social development theory and a positive sexuality framework (Vygotsky 1978;Williams et al 2015), (2) the study focused on parents of preadolescent children, and (3) the sample included fathers, whereas previous research has primarily focused on mothers, which allowed us to explore gender differences (Fisher 2000;Sprague & Kobrynowicz 2006;Thigpen & Fortenberry 2009;Moncloa et al 2010;Stauss et al 2011;Boyas et al 2012).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 68%

“…However, these findings built on previous research in three ways: (1) we illustrated how the findings are in alignment with social development theory and a positive sexuality framework (Vygotsky ; Williams et al . ), (2) the study focused on parents of preadolescent children, and (3) the sample included fathers, whereas previous research has primarily focused on mothers, which allowed us to explore gender differences (Fisher ; Sprague & Kobrynowicz ; Thigpen & Fortenberry ; Moncloa et al . ; Stauss et al .…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘It's awkward stuff’: conversations about sexuality with young children

Christensen¹,

Wright

Dunn

2016

Child & Family Social Work

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The purpose of this study was to explore how parents navigate sexrelated concepts with their young children. This study used feminist phenomenological research methods for data gathering and analysis. Social development theory and a positive sexuality framework were also used in the study design. The participants included 13 parents (mothers and fathers) of at least one child aged 3-11 years old. The researchers performed semi-structured, individual interviews and data analysis included developing themes that illustrated the essence of parent understandings about the phenomenon. Two themes emerged from the data analysis: it's awkward stuff and my parents never talked with me. The findings illustrated the relationship between the parents' perceptions and social development theory and a positive sexuality framework. Feminist analysis revealed gender differences in how mothers and fathers approached sex-related discussions with their children. Implications for practice, policy and research were included.

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“…Hartsock's analysis illustrates key themes in feminist critiques of official knowing as well as the general argument that the conceptual frameworks that guide the organization of official knowledge in our culture tend to reflect the experience and interests of men, particularly racially and economically privileged men (Aptheker, 1989;Collins, 1990;Connell, 1995;Harding, 1998;Smith, 1990;Sprague, 1997;Sprague & Kobrynowicz, 1999). Taking the standpoint of the privileged, scholars organize our understanding in ways that are (1) objectifying, (2) decontextualized, and (3) logically dichotomous.…”

Section: Feminist Critiques Of Knowledgementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Hartsock (1983) gives the example of seeing power as a thing in itself rather than a relationship between people. Positivist epistemology encourages this through its emphases on the standardization of measures of empirical phenomena and researcher control over the measurement process (Harding, 1998;Smith, 1990;Sprague & Kobrynowicz, 1999). Thus in studying people, we tend to transform them from thinking and feeling people into abstract bearers of attributes or traits and often fail to shift back to envisioning people in lived experience as we develop our interpretations (O'Brien, 1989;Sherif, 1979;Smith, 1990).…”

Section: Thinking From the Standpoint Of The Privilegedmentioning

confidence: 99%

Self‐Determination and Empowerment: A Feminist Standpoint Analysis of Talk about Disability

Sprague

Hayes

2000

American J of Comm Psychol

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In this paper we offer a feminist analysis of talk about self-determination and empowerment in the context of disability, focusing on the case of developmental disabilities. We find strains of the same patterns feminist epistemologists have argued shape the organization of formal knowledge from the standpoint of the privileged. At the extreme, people with developmental disabilities appear as objects without selves, outside of the context of interpersonal and social structural relationships that constrain who they can be by defining them as other, often in multiple and interacting ways. Empowerment, from the dominant standpoint, becomes an abstract attribute or condition; something a person has or does not have. Taking the standpoint of women and other marginalized people offers a view of self-determination as a person's development of his or her self. Empowerment becomes a potential characteristic of a social relationship, one that facilitates the development of someone's self. The most empowering relationships are mutual, recognizing and building on the diverse contributions and needs of participants in ways that seek to minimize inequalities over time. The reason some of us are self-determining is that we are in interpersonal and social structural relationships that empower us. To construct interpersonal and social structural relationships that empower people with developmental disabilities requires challenging the way dominant conceptualizations of independence and productivity also express the standpoint of the privileged. The standpoint of women allows all of us to talk more of how we connect with and facilitate one another's developing selves within communities.

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A Feminist Epistemology

Cited by 34 publications

References 43 publications

Toward a Dialectical Model of Family Gender Discourse: Body, Identity, and Sexuality

Toward a Dialectical Model of Family Gender Discourse: Body, Identity, and Sexuality

‘It's awkward stuff’: conversations about sexuality with young children

Self‐Determination and Empowerment: A Feminist Standpoint Analysis of Talk about Disability

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