Black Womanhood and Feminist Standpoints

Allen, Brenda

doi:10.1177/0893318998114004

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“…As many have called for the use of this theory to study organizations, it is surprising that more applications to organizational research do not exist. Only two other published studies of organizations using standpoint theory were identified, and both dealt with academic organizations (i.e., Allen, 1998;Dougherty & Krone, 2000).…”

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Making Sense of the Barriers Women Face in the Information Technology Work Force: Standpoint Theory, Self-disclosure, and Causal Maps

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Two theoretical perspectives (i.e., standpoint theory and the communication boundary management theory) were used to investigate the comments that 39 female information technology (IT) employees made during focus groups as they discussed issues related to workplace barriers and voluntary turnover. The revealed causal mapping method was used to analyze the women's responses. Voluntary turnover decisions were influenced by work schedule flexibility, family responsibilities, work stress, job qualities, and lack of consistency in workplace policies. Perceived barriers to promotion were linked to lack of respect, ageism, stress, and work schedule flexibility. Differences emerged between explicitly stated and implicitly embedded responses. Women explicitly discussed issues consistent with previous IT research; however their implicit statements often addressed barriers not commonly linked with IT advancement and turnover concerns.

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“…Although no point exists from which to objectively evaluate the merits of any particular knowledge, what has usually been taken to be legitimate knowledge has been based primarily on the lives of men in dominant races, classes, and cultures (Allen, 1998). In locating our social position, we explicitly express our connection with the African Diaspora.…”

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IT Education and Workforce Participation: A New Era for Women in Kenya?

Mbarika

Payton

Kvasny

et al. 2007

The Information Society

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While Sub-Sahara African women have historically assumed the roles of both housewives and subsistence farmers, they have had few opportunities to participate in the modern economies of the region. However, this trend is changing with the exponential growth of information and communications technologies (ICT), giving many Sub-Sahara African women access to computers, the Internet and other related technologies. Based on the work of a four-member research team from Kenya and the US, this paper examines the integration of female college students into the formal ICT work sector in Kenya. We do so by examining major bottlenecks and enablers to such integration from historical and contemporary perspectives. Using an interpretive approach, we conducted thirty-two interviews with women in an ICT program offered by a university in Kenya. Our findings indicate that women were highly optimistic, embracing ICT as a practical mechanism for achieving entry into the labor market. However, they perceived significant structural barriers, such as public policies that failed to facilitate the development of the ICT sector, gender discrimination by employers, and training that provided them with insufficient technical skills to enable them to effectively perform in the workplace. These findings largely confirm the gendered perspectives found in similar studies conducted in other countries. However, what appear as global perspectives are informed by the local causes.

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“…Without an extensive tradition of published studies it is difficult to learn from the past. Of the two studies we identified using feminist standpoint theories, one used a critical self-analysis (Allen, 1998) while the other used quantitative methods (Burrell, Buzzanell, & MacMillan, 1992). Consequently, we find ourselves in the exciting, yet daunting, position of clarifying feminist standpoint methods).…”

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“…For example, researchers have argued that feminist standpoint theories could be used to understand and to change the nature of conflict in organizations (Putnam, 1990), to better understand the organizational experiences of women of color (Allen, 1998), to rethink organizational socialization (Bullis, 1993), to explore alternative organizational themes (Buzzanell, 1994), and to provide a better understanding of sexual harassment in organizations (Wood, 1994).…”

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Overcoming the Dichotomy: Cultivating Standpoints in Organizations through Research

Dougherty¹,

Krone²

2000

Women's Studies in Communication

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Feminist standpoint theories are seldom used by researchers. One possible reason is the ongoing debate between postmodern theorists and feminine standpoint theorists. The debate has been constructed in bipolar terms such that the issues are perceived as mutually exclusive. However, bipolar assumptions are damaging to women, both in general and in organizations. We contend that feminist standpoint theories should theorize similarities, material reality, and communal agency while being sensitive to differences, multiple realities, and individual agency. A study of academic women is used to illustrate how standpoints can develop around similarities while respecting differences. Using a creative narrative, participants' organizational standpoints were developed around the common experiences of invisibility, overvisibility, isolation, energy dissipation, and a desire for community. Cultural differences, idiosyncratic differences, and differences in the evolution of a consciousness of oppression are discussed.Recently, several researchers in organizational communication have called for research using feminist theories in general (Fine, 1993;Marshall, 1993), and feminist standpoint theories more specifically. For example, researchers have argued that feminist standpoint theories could be used to understand and to change the nature of conflict in organizations (Putnam, 1990), to better understand the organizational experiences of women of color (Allen, 1998), to rethink organizational socialization (Bullis, 1993), to explore alternative organizational themes (Buzzanell, 1994), and to provide a better understanding of sexual harassment in organizations (Wood, 1994).With so many prominent researchers calling for the use of feminist standpoint theories to guide organizational research, it is disappointing and perplexing to find few research projects utilizing feminist standpoint theories. Allen's (1998) article analyzing her own ex-D O U G H E R T Y A N D K R O N E , W O M E N ' S S T U D I E S I N C O M M U N I C A T I O N2 3 (2 0 0 0 ) 2 perience as an African American woman in a primarily European American academic institution and Burrell, Buzzanell, and McMillan's (1992) article on feminine tensions in conflict situations provide two notable exceptions. The emerging question then is why do researchers tend to bypass feminist standpoint theories when conducting research? For some researchers it may be that feminist standpoint theories are not the best perspective to illuminate the organizational processes being examined. Other researchers, however, may forgo the use of feminist standpoint theories because of the intense debate generated around the theories and because of a lack of research to help guide in the selection of appropriate methods (Hirschmann 1997). The first author's experience with feminist standpoint theories provides an epitomizing illustration.Recently I wrote an article with feminist standpoint theories as a guiding perspective. After reading multiple articles critiquing feminist standpoint th...

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Black Womanhood and Feminist Standpoints

Cited by 72 publications

References 14 publications

Making Sense of the Barriers Women Face in the Information Technology Work Force: Standpoint Theory, Self-disclosure, and Causal Maps

Making Sense of the Barriers Women Face in the Information Technology Work Force: Standpoint Theory, Self-disclosure, and Causal Maps

IT Education and Workforce Participation: A New Era for Women in Kenya?

Overcoming the Dichotomy: Cultivating Standpoints in Organizations through Research

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