Confessing Feminist Theory: What's “I” Got to Do with It?

Bernstein, Susan David

doi:10.1111/j.1527-2001.1992.tb00889.x

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“…There is also the politics of confession to add to the consideration of revealing emotional relationships with respondents and/or their data. Bernstein (1992) is scathing of academics who use the confessional mode in their writing from the safety of tenured positions. Can all researchers afford such a confession professionally?…”

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“…What about the untenured aspiring feminist theorist who questions their self-sanctioning rhetoric? (Bernstein 1992) 5.10 Bernstein also cautions against assuming that every reader welcomes such textual interruption by the life history of the researcher. Although noting that some will be appreciative that the author is highlighting the provisional nature of the representation of knowledge other readers have little tolerance for 'personalising' academic work.…”

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“…Reasons for pausing before publishing this form of reflexive account range from the lack of censure from other researchers if you chose not to, the awareness of the judging power of the audience (Paechter 1996), the right to privacy (Young 1997) and the professional harm it may represent (Bernstein 1992).…”

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Incestuous Fields: Management Research, Emotion and Data Analysis

Perriton¹

2000

Sociological Research Online

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Many managers are turning to universities in order to gain post-experience post-graduate qualifications in management - both to supplement their experience in career terms and to broaden their understanding of their practice. The design of such programmes encourage manager/researchers to undertake research studies in their own organisations - exposing these researchers to issues connected to researching amongst at least a partially known sample. This paper argues that manager/researchers are poorly served by the lack of discussion about the effect of researching in these ‘incestuous fields’. The paper opens up some areas of debate around this issue and concludes by suggesting the basis of conversations that supervisors and students could have around this feature of management research.

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Incestuous Fields: Management Research, Emotion and Data Analysis

Perriton¹

2000

Sociological Research Online

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“…Social movements also court the confessant, as feminists (e.g. Bernstein ; Gilmore ) and community activists (e.g. Serrano‐Garcia & Bond ; Westerman ) explicitly advocate for confession as the quintessential expression of fully realized American personhood liberated from the grips of a self‐suffocating society.…”

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‘Signs of the times’: confession and the semiotic production of inner truth

Carr

2013

Royal Anthropological Inst

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How is it that confession – a highly ritualized, dialogically structured speech act – appears to transparently reflect and reveal the inner states of confessants? This article explores this question by closely engaging select post‐Vatican II defences of the Sacrament of Penance, which lay out the requirements of ‘modern’ confession in striking detail. A close reading of these theological texts demonstrates that felicitous confession is the product of three correlated (meta‐)semiotic processes: (1) the figuration of the pentinent memory as a storehouse for sin; (2) the management of ritual time into discrete stages of ‘private’ meaning‐making and ‘public’ pronouncement; and (3) the erasure of the social scenery of the confessional utterance. In concert, these processes render indexical signs as iconic ones and, in so doing, naturalize confession as the cathartic revelation of inner truths, already constituted as such.

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“…19 19 For critiques of the movement toward personal criticism, see Scott 1993; Bernstein 1992; Kauffman 1993. …”

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The Legacy of the Personal: Generating Theory in Feminism's Third Wave

Siegel¹

1997

Hypatia

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This essay focuses on the repeated rhetorical moves through which the third wave autobiographical subject seeks to be real and to speak as part of a collective voice from the next feminist generation. Given that postmodernist, @structuralist, and multiculturalist critiques huve shaped the form and the content of third wave expressions of the personal, the study is ultimately concerned with the possibilities and limitations of such theoretical analysis for a third wave of feminist praxis.Wave (n) 2c. A forward movement of a large body of persons (chiefly invaders or immigrants overrunning a country, or soldiers advancing to an attack), who either recede and return after an interval, or are followed after a time by qnother body of persons repeating the same movement.(Oxford English Dictionary)

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Confessing Feminist Theory: What's “I” Got to Do with It?

Cited by 12 publications

References 17 publications

Incestuous Fields: Management Research, Emotion and Data Analysis

Incestuous Fields: Management Research, Emotion and Data Analysis

‘Signs of the times’: confession and the semiotic production of inner truth

The Legacy of the Personal: Generating Theory in Feminism's Third Wave

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