The Missing Feminist Revolution in Sociology

Stacey, Judith; Thorne, Barrie

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“…The optimism that had existed among feminist academics in the 1970s -that the insights of a feminist perspective were in the process of revolutionizing disciplines and fields of inquiry across the academic enterprise -had, a decade later, not materialized to the degree expected (Stacey and Thorne, 1985). It was this gap between expectation and outcome that provided the context for their address.…”

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Sociology and Postcolonialism: Another `Missing' Revolution?

Bhambra

2007

Sociology

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Sociology is usually represented as having emerged alongside European modernity. The latter is frequently understood as sociology"s special object with sociology itself a distinctively modern form of explanation.The period of sociology"s disciplinary formation was also the heyday of Keywords: feminism, identity, modernity, multiple modernities, postcolonialism, sociological theory ------------------------------------------------The "modern" idea of the social, as a number of commentators have argued, was delineated in the emergence of sociology itself and in relation to the combined upheavals of the political and industrial revolutions of the nineteenth century (Nisbet, 2 1966;Hawthorn, 1976;Giddens, 1987;Heilbron, 1995). The new social theory that emerged was seen to correspond to these new social relations and the problems they brought forth. Modernity was framed as "the one great transformation in history" and sociology was seen as the attempt to understand how this transformation had begun and the means of intervening in terms of how it would be completed (Badham, 1984).Sociology, thus, became ineluctably tied to the categories of modernity in its selfunderstanding.These developments, however, were usually considered from a narrow, Eurocentric point of view where colonial and postcolonial encounters were written out of hegemonic accounts (Bhabha, 1994).1 As Seidman remarks in his discussion of Edward W. Said"s Orientalism, sociology"s emergence coincided with the high point of Western imperialism, and yet, "the dynamics of empire were not incorporated into the basic categories, models of explanation, and narratives of social development of the classical sociologists" (1996: 314). Outside the canonical "twin revolutions", then, the potential contribution of other events (and the experiences of non-Western "others") to the sociological paradigm has rarely been considered (see Calhoun, 1996;Chakrabarty 2000;Bhambra, 2007).The neglect of colonial relations is, perhaps, particularly surprising in the case of British sociology, given Britain"s past as an imperial power and the fact that the Sociology is also frequently represented as a discipline peculiarly associated with issues of order and integration, and with social movements calling that social order into question (Habermas, 1984). Initially, these were associated with problems of class, but in recent decades new social movements, such as feminism and the lesbian/ gay movement, have been particularly significant in sociological debates. However, scholars who have attempted to revise the discipline from the perspective of these new social movements have frequently come to believe that sociology is particularly (unusually, even, when compared to other disciplines) immune to influence.This, in essence, is the argument made by those proposing revolutions in thought -for example, "feminist" and "queer" -which are "missing" in sociology (Stacey and Thorne, 1985, 1996;Seidman, 1994;Stein and Plummer, 1994;Alway, 1995;Stacey, 2000;Stanley, 2000; Thistle, 2000...

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Sociology and Postcolonialism: Another `Missing' Revolution?

Bhambra

2007

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“…Como indica Jelin (2006) bajo el contexto actual "el valor de los hijos y la vida familiar gradualmente cambia de lugar", constituyéndose cada vez más en una prioridad el acceso a mayores niveles de educación y mejores oportunidades laborales (p.11) La mirada desde el feminismo y las nuevas formas de hacer familia Para comprender las razones que llevan a algunas mujeres a optar por no tener hijo/as es central incluir en el análisis los aportes de la teoría feminista a las Ciencias Sociales en general y el debate actual sobre las familias en particular. Respecto de lo primero es ampliamente conocida la capacidad explicativa de la perspectiva de género en tanto propicia un entendimiento generizado (Acker, 1990;Stacey & Thorne, 1985), es decir, que el género como parte de todos los aspectos de la vida humana explica y da sentido a una realidad vivida de manera diferente, tanto si se trata de hombres o de mujeres. El hecho de desnaturalizar lo femenino y lo masculino e irracionalizar la sujeción de las mujeres a espacios normativos (Molina, 2003, p. 128), permite comprender los cambios en las relaciones sociales y la subversión normativa que implican dichas transformaciones (Valcárcel, 2009).…”

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No quiero tener hijos (as)… continuidad y cambio en las relaciones de pareja de mujeres profesionales jóvenes

Onetto

Ladino

2017

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Resumen 1 : En un contexto de transformaciones culturales, económicas y sociales que han experimentado las familias chilenas y de diversos cambios en el marco de la modernidad, el presente artículo analiza las principales motivaciones que expresan un grupo de mujeres profesionales acerca de la decisión de no tener hijos (as). A partir del análisis de las experiencias biográficas y familiares, la decisión se presenta en estrecha relación con la conformación de relaciones de pareja más igualitarias en las que se entremezclan prácticas y representaciones que discuten los mandatos de género. Entre ellos los significados respecto del trabajo, la pareja, los hijos, el uso del salario y su distribución de tareas dentro del hogar, entre otros. A pesar del interés por construir relaciones más igualitarias, la opción por la no maternidad no asegura el fin de las desigualdades especialmente en relación al reparto de tareas al interior del hogar. Sin embargo, en el grupo estudiado se aprecia un constante interés por construir a una relación más equitativa y propender a una relación distinta a las que ellas conocieron en sus respectivas familias. Palabras claves:No maternidad, relaciones igualitarias, género I don'twant to have children… Continuity and change in partner relationships of young professional womenAbstract: In the context of the cultural, economic and social transformations experienced by Chilean families and various changes related to modernity, this article analyzes the main motivations expressed by a group of young professional women regarding the decision not to have children. Based on the analysis of family and life experiences, the decision is presented by them as being closely connected to the development of more equal partner relationships in which practices and representations that challenge gender mandates are intermingled. This includes aspects related to work, one's partner, children, income use and the distribution of household tasks, among others. Despite the interest in building more equal relationships, the decision not to have children does not ensures the end of inequalities, especially in relation to the distribution of household chores. However, the studied group presents

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“…Arguments about the missing feminist revolution in sociology, made by Stacey and Thorne (1985), put forward the idea that despite the extent of empirical research undertaken by women and on issues of gender, the concepts of sociology remained immune to transformation in the light of such research. These arguments and concerns were mirrored in the article by Stein and Plummer (1994) on the missing queer revolution in sociology.…”

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Postcolonial Reflections on Sociology

Bhambra

2016

Sociology

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Abstract:This contribution addresses the impact of postcolonial critiques on sociology by drawing parallels with the emergence of feminism and queer theory within the academy. These critiques were facilitated by the expansion of public higher education over the last five decades and the article also addresses the implications of the privatisation and marketization of the university on the processes of knowledge production.Keywords: modernity, postcolonial, public university, race Corresponding Details: Gurminder K Bhambra, University of Warwick, Coventry, CV4 7AL, UK, g.k.bhambra@warwick.ac.ukThe move to mass higher education in the UK in the late twentieth century opened up opportunities for increasing numbers of people who had not traditionally gone to university. There was a simultaneous proliferation of critical positions and a concerted, although by no me ans coordinated, challenge to the dominant positions within academic debates. This was a period that saw the rise of subaltern studies, histories from below, of women's studies, of queer theory and critical race theory. The demographic diversity of the university faculty and students was central, not to the emergence and development of these ideas -they had been circulating for much longer in other spaces -but to the legitimation and validation of such ideas within wider publics. The university, as the co mmonly recognised site of knowledge production, has a key role to play in this wider legitimation of ideas and the shift from a public to a privatized university system impacts also on this. In this article, I reflect on the development of my own work within sociology in this context. My work has been centrally concerned with issues in historical sociology, the emergence of modernity, and the disciplinary formation of sociology itself. Although, I address historical issues, I am very much interested also with the way in which the historical unfolding of social processes is crucial for understanding the present -especially in relation to debates on European cosmopolitanism and multiculturalism which have become ever more acute in recent years. This involves examining the self-defined racialized boundaries of communities of belonging, as well as broader European identities, and the longer-standing entanglements of both (see Hansen 2002, Jonsson 2016. Said (1995Said ( [1978), and Gayatri Spivak (1988) -although it is not centrally engaged with debates in these fields. Rather, my interest is in the emergence of institutional orders organized around race and colonial difference and the ways in which these function in the present (see King and Smith 2005); including within sociology as a form

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