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Critical Realism, Feminism, and Gender: A Reader book cover

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Critical Realism, Feminism, and Gender: A Reader

Edited By Michiel van Ingen, Steph Grohmann, Lena Gunnarsson Copyright 2020
314 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

314 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

314 Pages 5 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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In assessing the current state of feminism and gender studies, whether on a theoretical or a practical level, it has become increasingly challenging to avoid the conclusion that these fields are in a state of disarray. Indeed, feminist and gender studies discussions are beset with persistent splits and disagreements. This reader suggests that returning to, and placing centre-stage, the role of... Read more

Making Waves, and Beyond

Michiel van Ingen, Steph Grohmann, and Lena Gunnarsson

Part I Philosophical Preliminaries: Critical Realism, Feminism, and Gender

Michiel van Ingen, Steph Grohmann, and Lena Gunnarsson

1. Feminism, Realism, and Universalism

Tony Lawson

2. Post-structuralist and Constructivist Feminism.

Carrie Hull

3. Sex and Gender: A Critical Realist Approach

Caroline New

4. A Defence of the Category ‘Women’

Lena Gunnarsson

5. Gender Theory Non-conforming: Critical Realist Feminism, Trans Politics, and Affordance Theory

Angela Martinez Dy

Part II Critical Realism and Intersectionality

Michiel van Ingen, Steph Grohmann, and Lena Gunnarsson

6. Developing a Critical Realist Positional Approach to Intersectionality

Angela Martinez Dy, Lee Martin, and Susan Marlow

7. Agency and Ontology within Intersectional Analysis: A Critical Realist Contribution

Sue Clegg

8. Why we keep Separating the ‘Inseparable’: Dialecticising Intersectionality

Lena Gunnarsson

Part III Methodology and Methods: Critical Realism and Empirical Research

Michiel van Ingen, Steph Grohmann, and Lena Gunnarsson

9. The Reality of Gender (Ideology): Using Abduction and Retroduction in Applied Critical Realist Research

Amber J. Fletcher

10. After Constructivism: Rethinking Feminist Security Studies through Interdisciplinary Research

Michiel van Ingen

11. Integrating Critical Realist and Feminist Methodologies: Ethical and Analytical Dilemmas

Sadie Parr

12. Critical Realist Discourse Analysis, Motherhood, and Gender: A Systematic Methodological Approach to Analysis

Wendy Sims-Schouten

Further Readings

Biography

Michiel van Ingen is an Associate Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom.

Steph Grohmann is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Centre for Homeless and Inclusion Health at the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

Lena Gunnarsson is a Researcher and Teacher in Gender Studies at Örebro University and Lund University, Sweden.

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