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Fisheries and aquaculture have been the subject of feminist research and activism globally for decades. The result is a rapidly expanding body of literature examining women and fisheries and gender relations from oceans to plate. This body encompasses diverse and substantive critiques of mainstream fisheries research, policy and practice that ignore women’s contributions showing how local practices, political economies and state policies (re)produce gender inequalities around access to fisheries resources and related wealth. Their work has had positive results. Some fishy feminist work draws on ecofeminism and feminist political ecology to explore links between resource degradation, neoliberal capitalism and patriarchy, but more needs to be done. This paper places existing North Atlantic feminist fisheries research in conversation with an emerging body of feminist scholarship interrogating human-fish relations. It makes the case for applying an ecofeminist lens in future work foregrounding how relations among humans, fisheries and fish are shaped by intersecting capitalist, colonial, speciesist and patriarchal systems of oppression. This lens would highlight the multiple oppressions that arise from altered fishery and aquaculture arrangements and dynamics in the age of the Anthropocene. Putting these bodies of work into lively conversation contributes to both the feminist fisheries/aquaculture and the more-than-human literatures.

The increase of qualitative research in gerontology invites discussion of the effects of researcher positionality on data collection and analysis. Analyses of the interviewing experiences of three researchers who conducted a qualitative study of aging Asian Americans illustrate the complexities of negotiating “insider” status. Despite the interviewers’ shared panethnic status (Asian) with the participants, they experienced different levels of insider status, which were based, in part, on cultural competence related to cultural norms and practices, age hierarchies, and language. This suggests that qualitative researchers should engage in reflexive practices that consider researcher positionality in relation to research participants. Researchers need to pay attention to the possible implications of cultural competence on negotiating insider status and when gathering and analyzing data, similar to considerations of culturally relevant approaches in practical settings.

Dominant paradigms of epistemology conventionally separate the rational from the emotional. In contradistinction to those views, we build on a rich tradition of scholarship about feminist anger to ...

Issues of power, inequality, and representation in the production of knowledge have a long history in transnational feminist research. And yet the unequal relationship between ethnographers and participants continues to haunt feminist research. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork with the cooperative Sulá Batsú in Costa Rica between 2015 and 2019, in this essay I argue that centering solidarity and working through discomfort creates relationships that can reinvent and endure the persistent imbalance of power between researcher and participant. I conceptualize a solidarity-based methodology that is uncomfortable, tossing between "us and them," the objective and the subjective, akin to Gloria Anzaldúa’s “nepantla,” a liminal space of both fragmentation and unification, of both anguish and healing: a methodology from the cracks. In this essay, I reflect upon my experiences as a Puerto Rican feminist researcher focusing on Sulá Batsú, specifically on my relationship with the coop’s general coordinator. I conducted ethnographic fieldwork with the coop, including participant observation, in-depth interviews, and textual analysis of their research, briefs, blog posts, presentations, and promotional literature.

This essay offers a reflection on conducting historical research relating to First Nations women’s lives and cross-cultural relationships in ways that are ethical and informed by feminist sensibili...

One of the most important questions for feminist research on men and masculinity concerns how men can change and become more affected by feminism and less engaged in sexism. Here, men who identify as feminist, pro-feminist or anti-sexist have been considered to be of particular interest. This article contributes to the emerging research on men’s engagement with feminism by analysing contemporary writing about gender relations, inequality and masculinity, more specifically books about men published in Sweden, 2004-2015. Focusing on lived-experience descriptions, the analysis shows how a range of emotions are central to the processes where men encounter and are becoming affected by feminism. The emotions identified include happy ones such as relief, but a more prominent place is given to negative emotions such as alienation, shame, frustration, as well as loss and mourning. Drawing on Ahmed’s model of emotions as bound up with encounters with others, the article highlights how of men’s engagement with feminism is embedded within interpersonal relations with others, particularly women partners, men friends, and children.

Kathleen M Cumiskey’s feminist research on gender, mobile media, safety, vulnerability and grief has spanned across the previous two decades. This interview focuses on three of Cumiskey’s key texts...

Within the unique context of COVID-19, this feminist research provides novel insights on how gender-specific issues are articulated in the experiences of women concerning their small businesses in a patriarchal developing nation Based on the interviews of women business-owners in Bangladesh, this research reveals diversified gendered experiences of women at the private and public spheres in continuing the business operation during the pandemic period It also unveils patriarchal practices regarding women's discontinuing or closing down the ventures due to the COVID-19 crisis Thus, the research substantially advances the understanding on the influence of gender on women's continuing or discontinuing or even closing down their businesses in a highly patriarchal developing nation during the pandemic period It further offers important suggestions for policy practitioners in supporting women business-owners of the patriarchal developing nation during the COVID-19 pandemic This article is protected by copyright All rights reserved

Feminist research has produced important insights into the causes and forms of, and impediments to overcoming, gender-based discrimination in the workplace and society. Yet the impact of such work is rarely acknowledged or evaluated in the various research assessment exercises on which neoliberal universities increasingly rely to appraise the quality of their outputs. This article considers the social impact of research by tracing paradigmatic shifts in theoretical writings by feminist scholars and activists, namely Judith Butler and Silvia Federici, that influence policies, organizational practices and debates on gender. This impact, it is suggested, occurs despite evidence of insufficient or stalled progress in addressing old and new inequalities in organizations and society, which cannot and should not be ignored or underplayed. It is argued that courageous and novel theorization is required to create new imaginaries, as well as engagement in the political process through academic activism to better understand and transform the world in which we live.

Affect theories have become widespread in feminist research and other critical social sciences but have just recently entered critical disability studies. This paper is an attempt to connect the tw...

Hui, Wang. 2019. “The Femininity of Female Employees in Tourism: A Gender Performativity Perspective.” Ph.D. diss, Sun Yat-Sen University.As a propagator of feminist research, my PhD thesis focusse...

Feminist research methodologies have challenged power imbalances in qualitative interviews and gendered inequalities more broadly. We explore the methodological and ethical complexities of, and implications for, doing feminist research with young men. We draw on two studies in which narrative interviews with young men were conducted: one in 2014 and 2015 with 28 middle-class men between the ages of 20 and 31 living in Australia and Germany; and one a longitudinal study beginning in 2009 in the south-east of England with 24 working-class men between the ages of 18 and 24. We explore the production of narratives in interviews with young men, rapport-building, and interactional issues. Balancing generosity and critique emerges as a key ethical and methodological consideration for research conducted with young men. We suggest that negotiating the tensions of this balance can hold key possibilities for research and for proliferating alternative modes of masculinity.

Through a personalized story, anchored in historical reflections on the formative years of feminist research in the Nordic context in the early 1970s, the article engages in transversal conversations. The focus is dissonances and resonances between intersectional feminisms and socialist feminisms, and their critiques of monocategorical (neo)liberal feminisms. The method is transversal dialoguing, implying that participants in politically conflicted conversations, shift between "rooting" (situating their own stakes along the lines of feminist epistemologies of situated knowledges) and "shifting" (seriously trying to imagine what it takes to inhabit the situated perspective of interlocutors). A starting point for the articles transversal conversations is recent critiques of white feminist intersectionality research in Nordic and broader European contexts, claimed to neoliberalize and whitewash intersectionality. Shifting to the perspective of the critics, the author takes responsibility for her stakes in epistemologies of white ignorance. A historical reflection on her becoming a socialist feminist in the context of New Left students and feminist movements in Denmark in the aftermath of the students revolts of 1968 is used as prism to a discussion of socialist feminisms in the Nordic context in the 1970s, and their paradoxes of being attentive to class, while entangled in classic marxisms eurocentrism and epistemologies of white ignorance. To dig further into the question of genealogies of leftwing epistemologies of ignorance, characterizing Nordic socialist feminism in the 1970s (and haunting European socialism more generally), the article critically rereads a piece of the authors research from the 1970s-an analysis of the work of socialist feminist, Alexandra Kollontaj, and her role in the Russian revolution. Rooting, the author suggests that the epistemologies of white ignorance in Nordic feminist research rather than emerging from monocategoricality and (neo) neoliberalism, as the critics suggest, should be sought after through a critical scrutiny of leftwing versions of eurocentrism.

This chapter reviews developments in the intellectual and activist work of African feminists and gender scholars over the past two decades. African feminists and gender scholar activists have broken with dominant epistemologies to frame their own sites of knowledge production and feminist identity, reflecting shifting conditions in local and global contexts. The knowledge they generate is rooted in a tradition of scholarship, activism, and engagements with state institutions and with transnational and regional feminist movements. I discuss (1) contexts in which African feminist standpoints have emerged over the past 20 years, (2) developments in women and gender studies programs, and (3) ways in which African feminist scholars in the continent and diaspora have stimulated intellectual engagement and activism through feminist research and publishing, collaborative scholarship, influencing policy, and new forms of activism.

Emerging evidence that perceptual measures of peer deviance typically used in criminology may be inaccurate has resulted in recent investigations into the factors that condition misperception. Studies find that lower levels of self-control and lack of time spent with friends contribute to misperception, while friendship closeness increases accuracy. One unexplored factor that has been shown to impact peer-to-peer interactions is gender. Filling in this gap, the current study explores how gender structure in combination with friendship quality and individual levels of self-control, may cause differences in the perceptual accuracy of peer deviance among friendship pairs. Using item-response-based mixed-effects models, results demonstrate that women in female-only friendships produce the most accurate perceptions of peer deviance. Men in male-only friendships produce the least accurate perceptions. Since men are typically self-report greater engagement in deviant behavior than women, this finding highlights that peer deviance perceptions are most flawed among people who are engaging in the most deviance. Additionally, higher quality friendships have more accurate perceptions while those who have less self-control are markedly less accurate. Implications for feminist research and peer deviance measurement are reviewed.

Arastirmanin ‘bilimsel’ olarak kabul edilmesi icin klasik positivist yaklasimlarin ‘nesnellik’ gerekliligine ragmen, feminist arastirma, arastirmacilarin bilgi uretimi icerisindeki konumlulugunun etkisini vurgulamakta ve bilimsel bir arastirma icin tarafsizliga vurgu yapilmasini elestirmektedir. Feministler, arastirma icindeki guc iliskilerini incelemis ve arastirmacilarin konumlarini – iceriden ve/veya disaridan gelen bir konumluluga sahip olarak – karmasik guc iliskileri acisindan tartismislardir. Bu inceleme, feminist arastirma icerisinde bilginin konumlulugunu vurgulayan ve arastirmadaki hiyerarsiyi ortadan kaldirmak ve akademi ile aktivizm arasindaki ikilemi uzlastirmak icin onemli bir potansiyele sahip olan dusunumsellik uzerine detayli bir calismayi gerektirir. Bu nedenle, bu calismada, feminist nitel arastirma, ozellikle mulakatlar, icerisindeki dinamiklere, dusunumsellik kavramina, arastirmacilarin iceriden ve/veya disaridan konumlarina dair tartismalara ve feminist dusunumselligin akademi/aktivizm ikiligi arasinda bir kopru kurmak icin nasil bir arac olarak kullanilabilecegine odaklanilmaktadir.

We present critical participatory action research as an enactment of feminist research praxis in psychology. We discuss the key elements of critical participatory action research through the story of a single, national participatory project. The project was designed by and for LGBTQIA+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, queer, intersex, asexual, plus) and gender-expansive youth; it was called What’s Your Issue? We provide details of the research project, the dreams, desires, experiences, and structural precarity of queer and trans youth. We write this article hoping readers will appreciate the complexities of identities, attend to the relentless commitment to recognition and solidarities, learn the ethical and epistemological principles of critical participatory action research as a feminist and intersectional praxis, and appreciate the provocative blend of research and action toward social justice. Online slides for instructors who want to use this article for teaching are available on PWQ's website at http://journals.sagepub.com/page/pwq/suppl/index

The concept of emotional labour has been subject to critique, evaluation, development and extension over the last 35 years, but it remains firmly anthropocentric. This article begins to address this shortcoming by illustrating some of the productive potential of extending the concept of emotional labour to include more-than-human and multispecies perspectives. Organisations are not solely human phenomena, but research usually fails to consider the role of nonhumans in work in contemporary capitalism. Using the example of trail horses in tourism, I argue that some nonhuman animals should be considered workers, and that they do perform emotional labour in service to commercial organisations. More-than-human and multispecies perspectives capture some of the complexities of everyday organisational practices, and can inform feminist research attuned to the experiences of marginalised others, human and nonhuman.

Ahmedabad, Gujarat, is one of the fastest growing cities in the world, and a reflection of India’s story of exclusionary economic growth. This article focuses on research carried out with women construction workers with the help of a migrant construction workers’ union in Ahmedabad. It describes the method used by women members of the union to make visible their experiences as migrants in the city – with men, local authorities, and employers – to highlight the additional burdens that they bear due to a negligent state and industry, advocate for better working and living conditions, and raise consciousness of gender inequalities that need to be integrated into the demands of the workers’ union.

It was the late hours of a warm summer evening in 2004. A group of us – young women and men from different parts of South Asia – stood outside a popular nightclub in the Diplomatic Enclave in New D...

Gender dimensions of violence, and especially women’s experiences in settings of urban violence have been the subject of important feminist research, including those that highlight gender as essential for comprehensive analyses of security and urban violence, and for promoting solutions and positive change. A primary contribution of feminist research indeed has been to demonstrate that there are both visible and invisible aspects of urban violence. A gap in literature on these gender dimensions is that of men’s construction of masculinities – and how these constructions are challenged during times. An important set of invisible phenomena within urban spaces and their peripheries includes the positive and decolonial responses that occur, including non-violent and feminist cultural and artistic pathways and the factors that lead men to resist to dominant, violent, or ‘hyper’ versions of masculinities. While there is a predominate focus on men’s involvement in violence, far less attention has been placed on men’s non-violent pathways. Based on examples of cultural, artistic and activist practices from the peripheries, namely those emerging in Rio de Janeiro, this article aims to discuss how artivism can challenge gender inequalities and power relations.

Physics- and computer-related disciplines are strongly male dominated in Western higher education. Feminist research has demonstrated how this can be understood as reflecting a strong privileging of mind and rationality (over body/nature/emotions) in these disciplines, which harmonises with broader notions of masculinity as transcendental and disembodied. However, as we demonstrate in this paper, being recognised as legitimate in these fields is also tightly connected to embodiment. Drawing on post-structural gender theory, we explore how notions of corporeality, style and aesthetics are articulated within computer engineering and physics settings at two higher education institutions, one in Canada, one in Sweden. Using empirical data from two case studies, we demonstrate that these disciplines are usually understood as 'gender neutral' by students but that interest and competence in these fields are simultaneously understood as embodied through neglect for style and corporeal aesthetics, in ways that contribute to the masculinisation of these fields.

En aquest article va interactuar amb la autoetnografía feminista com a forma d'aproximació al fenomen cultural de ser una dona "grossa". La autoetnografía feminista és un enfocament profund i compromès, que aconsegueix posar en relleu la colonització d'espais i discursos. El procés destaca la coexistència i l'exposició de "jos" líquids vulnerables - qüestionant nocions d'un jo, que és una "Identitat" acuradament continguda i controlada. El procés crític de la autoetnografía feminista s'entrellaça amb bibliografia sobre investigació feminista, feminismes, autoetnografía, estudis crítics sobre la grossor i interseccionalitat. Un punt clau d'aquesta investigació és el procés reflexiu d'investigar les experiències de ser una "dona grassa" i com jo (i el meu discurs) "resisteixo [imos] a les normes socials i institucionals que sovint prescriuen la investigació "i "promocionen veus de dones i experiències úniques" (Averett, Soper, 2011, pàg. 371-372)., In this paper, I engage with feminist autoethnography as a way of gaining insight into the cultural phenomenon of being a ‘fat’ woman. Feminist autoethnography is an in-depth and engaged approach, opening up colonised spaces and discourses. The process highlights the being with and exposing vulnerable fluid 'selves' – challenging notions of a self, which is a neatly contained and managed 'identity'. The critical process of feminist autoethnography interweaves with the literature in feminist research, feminisms, autoethnography, critical fat studies, and intersectionality. A key to this exploration is the reflexive process of researching the experiences of being a ‘fat’ woman’ and whether I (and my discourse) “resists the social and institutional norms that often dictate research” and “promote women's voices and unique experiences" (Averett, Soper, 2011, p. 371-372)., En este artículo interactúo con la autoetnografía feminista como forma de aproximación al fenómeno cultural de ser una mujer “gorda”. La autoetnografía feminista es un enfoque profundo y comprometido, que logra poner de relieve la colonización de espacios y discursos. El proceso destaca la coexistencia y la exposición de “yoes” líquidos vulnerables – cuestionando nociones de un yo, que es una “identidad” cuidadosamente contenida y controlada. El proceso crítico de la autoetnografía feminista se entrelaza con bibliografía sobre investigación feminista, feminismos, autoetnografía, estudios críticos sobre la gordura e interseccionalidad. Un punto clave de esta investigación es el proceso reflexivo de investigar las experiencias de ser una “mujer gorda” y como yo (y mi discurso) “resisto[imos] a las normas sociales e institucionales que frecuentemente prescriben la investigación” y “promocionan voces de mujeres y experiencias únicas" (Averett, Soper, 2011, p. 371-372).

En este trabajo pretendemos profundizar en los aspectos epistemológicos y en la práctica de la investigación social desde la perspectiva de los estudios de género. Partiendo de la complejidad de la metodología de la investigación y de la diversidad de enfoques feminis-tas, se trabajará en la clarificación de algunos conceptos en torno a qué significa “investi-gación feminista” y se intentará dar respuesta a algunas de las cuestiones en ella implica-das. ¿Existe un método feminista? ¿Es posible considerar unos tipos de metodología más acordes con el feminismo que otros? Desde las investigaciones con un punto de vista de gé-nero se han planteado fuertes críticas a las epistemologías y metodologías tradicionales que, entre otros muchos aspectos cuestionables, servían a la pretensión de legitimar o justi-ficar situaciones de subordinación, marginación o exclusión de las mujeres en determinados ámbitos. Eliminar los sesgos sexistas y androcéntricos que lastran el conocimiento desde tiempo inmemorial es un punto principal de los programas feministas de investigación, que cada vez más centran su atención en los métodos mediante los que se obtienen las “eviden-cias” sobre las que se construyen los diferentes saberes., In this paper we aim to deepen the epistemological aspects and practice of social research from the perspective of gender studies. Starting from the complexity of the research methodology and the diversity of feminist approaches, we will work in clarifying some con-cepts about what does "feminist research" means and we will attempt to answer some of the issues involved in it. Is there a feminist method? Is it possible to consider a more con-sistent methodology types with feminism than others? From the research with a gender perspective have raised strong criticism of traditional epistemologies and methodologies, among many other questionable aspects claim served to legitimize or justify situations of subordination, marginalization or exclusion of women in certain fields. Remove sexist and androcentric biases that weigh down knowledge since immemorial time is a main point of feminist research programs, which increasingly focus their attention on the methods by which we obtain the "evidences" on which the various sciences are built.

Doing feminist work from within patriarchal institutions comes with unique challenges. We invited two activists and feminist studies professors, Rosi Braidotti and Nina Lykke, to reflect on feminists’ long march through patriarchal university institutions. Concretely, we asked them to reflect upon three themes. Firstly, we asked them to situate themselves and their work – and reflect upon what it takes to do feminist work which troubles mainstream epistemologies. Secondly, we asked them to explore how the conditions for feminist research have changed over time – and what the current neoliberal and right-wing backlash does to feminist research. And finally, we asked how coming of age might have influenced them, and how they looked upon intergenerational exchanges in the feminist movement. The aim of the dialogue was to look back at how the feminist studies movement in academia emerged, while at the same time looking forward to explore which new political and ideological conditions have arisen and how these might affect future possibilities for conducting feminist research within academia.

Carol Ann Duffy inherits and reworks many of the codes and conventions of canonical love poetry; from her position as an acclaimed contemporary poet interested in giving voice to marginal and dissident subjects and transforming poetry from within, she has explored the connection between the adornment of women's bodies and the politics of looking. This article proposes to interpret pearls, gems, jewellery and gold in three poems from different stages of Duffy's career as part of a work of revision and critique of canonical love poetry. Drawing from feminist research on the love sonnet, Petrarchism, and the blazon, I discuss how Duffy portrays ornaments, and fashion more broadly, as "a liberating and repressing part of our lives" (2004: xi)., Carol Ann Duffy hereda y transforma numerosos códigos y convenciones de la poesía amatoria canónica; desde su lugar como una renombrada poeta contemporánea que se interesa por dar voz a los sujetos marginales y disidentes y en transformar la poesía desde adentro, Duffy ha explorado la conexión entre la ornamentación de los cuerpos femeninos y las políticas del mirar. Este artículo propone interpretar las perlas, las gemas, la joyería y el oro en tres poemas de diferentes etapas de la trayectoria de Duffy como parte de una labor de revisión y crítica hacia la poesía amatoria canónica. A partir de investigaciones feministas sobre el soneto amatorio, el Petrarquismo y el blazon, analizo cómo Duffy representa los adornos, y la moda en un sentido más amplio, como "una parte liberadora y represiva de nuestras vidas" (2004: xi).

This article explores the possibility for researchers to embrace the unpredictability of focus groups by using activities as a stimulus for conversation. Reflecting on a recent study with young women in Bristol exploring their perceptions of celebrity feminists, it argues that using writing and drawing activities forces the researcher to relinquish control, and their role as questioner and as expert, to the participants. Furthermore, by analysing the ways in which I frequently became uncomfortable at the consequences of this loss of control, trying to regain it and failing, I argue that the activities forced me to fully commit to the feminist ideals of research that I subscribed to, particularly redressing the hierarchical relationships in research settings. Finally, the article discusses the implications of these findings in feminist research, and the need more broadly to reflect on how methodological decisions impact on researchers’ own performances in focus groups.

Womanists and Chicana/Latina feminists have theorized about suturing our mind/body/spirit splits through energy work, meditation and accessing ancestral knowledges. These practices have not only helped women of color and the colonized heal, but they have also incited spiritual activism. Because spiritual realms are rarely discussed in academic spaces, we find it important to bring these ideas to the surface, especially as they relate to transdisciplinary feminist research practices. Theorizing with Womanist and Chicana/Latina feminist spirituality intertwines multiple women of color feminist/a onto-epistemologies, and crosses boundaries of women’s, ethnic, sociological, and educational studies. In this chapter, we first share how Womanists and Chicana/Latina feminists have theorized notions of spirituality from across disciplines and then apply these ideas to methodology. We specifically focus on how Womanism and Chicana/Latina feminism changes the purposes for inquiry, how one engages in research, and what spiritually centered methodologies can offer in terms of healing (both humans and more than humans) in an increasingly racist, sexist, colonialist, and violent world. Spiritually centered methodologies further transdisciplinary feminist research by opening dimensions and ways of engaging with/among the world that are often closed off and thought of as nonexistent, intangible, or that they should be separate from our research.

CITATION: Gouws, A. 2020. Problematising race and gender in everyday research processes : a model of feminist research praxis, in Jansen, J. & Walters, C. (eds). 2020. Fault lines : a primer on race, science and society. Stellenbosch: SUN PReSS, doi:10.18820/9781928480495/11.

Although undocumented immigrants represent a particularly vulnerable population, they are underrepresented in health research. To facilitate the engagement of undocumented immigrants in health research, in this article, we describe the methodological issues encountered while conducting a qualitative study where we sought to understand the health care–seeking experiences of undocumented African immigrant women in the United States. Strategies employed in addressing methodological challenges and recommendation for future studies will also be discussed.

This chapter explores sexual harassment as a workplace problem in both psychological and feminist research. It examines how the new normal of working lives, and shifts in ideals of the “good” worker, have shaped how sexual harassment is understood. Of particular importance is how neoliberal feminism, which primarily addresses professional and privileged women, dovetailed with initial traction of #MeToo. This chapter explores the complexities of intersectional power relations that are relevant for understanding less privileged women’s experiences of challenging sexual harassment. It focuses on how intersectional power relations can be minimised and obscured by recourse to women’s self-empowerment in postfeminist and neoliberal feminist discourse.

En este artículo se abordan las posibilidades de la investigación documental para el análisis interseccional de las políticas de igualdad de género. Para ello, se plantea un análisis de los planes estratégicos de igualdad, vigentes en 2019 (o más recientes), desarrollados en España a nivel estatal y autonómico. Se examinan dos cuestiones centrales: 1) el reconocimiento de la interseccionalidad y de las desigualdades múltiples; y 2) la atención a grupos situados en posiciones múltiples de desigualdad. Los resultados muestran una incorporación muy limitada del marco interseccional en los planes de igualdad de género, aunque sí se atiende (de forma variable) a distintos ejes de diversidad y desigualdad: principalmente, la edad / ciclo vital, el territorio y la exclusión social. El análisis documental ha permitido localizar las problemáticas interseccionales objeto de atención en distintos ámbitos sociales: fundamentalmente, educación, violencia y políticas de inclusión social. Al mismo tiempo, se observa la infrarrepresentación de los intereses y necesidades de mujeres racializadas, migrantes y de minorías étnicas, así como una insensibilidad a la diversidad afectivo-sexual. El análisis crítico, reflexivo y situado que se plantea desde la interseccionalidad puede ayudar a incrementar la eficacia y la equidad de las políticas de igualdad de género al fijar la mirada en grupos y problemáticas situados en las intersecciones de múltiples desigualdades., This paper addresses the possibilities of documentary research for the intersectional analysis of gender equality policies. For this purpose, this work proposed an analysis of the strategic plans of equality, valid in 2019 (or most recent) developed in the Spanish context at state and autonomic level. Two main issues are examined: 1) the recognition of intersectionality and multiple inequalities; 2) attention to groups located in multiple positions of inequality. The results show a very limited incorporation of the intersectional framework in gender equality plans. However, these plans attend (although in a variable way) to different axes of diversity and inequality: mainly, age / life cycle, territory and social exclusion. The documentary analysis has allowed to locate the intersectional issues that are the object of attention in different social fields: mainly, education, violence and social inclusion policies. At the same time, there is an underrepresentation of interests and needs of racialized, migrant, and ethnic minority women in addition to an insensibility regarding affective-sexual diversity. The critical, reflexive, and situated analysis that involves the intersectionality can help increase the effectiveness and equity of gender equality policies through the inclusion of groups and issues located at intersections of multiple inequalities.

Developmental psychologist Erica Burman responds to Witkowski’s questions about her evaluation of the anti-psychiatry movement as an example of deconstruction. After covering Burman’s career work thus far, Witkowski and Burman discuss the problem of adequacy of psychiatric categories of mental illness and the usefulness of diagnostic manuals (DSM and ICD). They then dialogue on children’s autonomy, the “child as a method” approach, the “psychologization” of childhood and psycho-legalism. They also consider the role of psychology in overcoming problems such as poverty, racism and war. The two explore the crisis in psychology and ways of overcoming it and the problem of colloquial psychological concepts in science. Burman presents her view on “grievance studies,” achievements of critical psychology and its challenges, her current research and advice for young psychologists.

This is a methodological article that explores research practices in the spaces and power structures of collaborative research involving two feminist scholars who are committed to postcolonial ways...

In response to the economic vulnerability of single mothers and in keeping with a neoliberal ideology, many Western countries have encouraged increased labour-market participation, often through welfare-to-work (WTW) programmes. One practice adopted in these programmes is deepening knowledge of pension savings and increasing financial savviness. Feminist research points to women's lower economic status than men at retirement, especially divorcees and widows. Based on perceptions of single mothers participating in a WTW programme in Israel and their trainers, this study examines how such mothers, in a framework of vulnerability, experience policy imperatives regarding paid labour and examines their attitudes to pension savings. Findings reveal that, in reaction to the imperative of pension savings, some single mothers believed their present employment provided them with a more secure economic future, while others rejected this belief. The trainers also had divided opinions, despite their role in encouraging mothers to follow the imperative.

As China embarked on the path of economic and social reforms, social provisions from the Maoist era were dismantled, and care responsibilities shifted back from the state to the household. Rural–ur...

Feminist research often links the issues of care and care work to women, both theoretically and empirically. In this article we discuss the fact that, in contrast to such feminist approaches, theories of masculinity barely theorize care and care work. Fatherhood for instance is not included in Connell’s concept of hegemonic masculinity. Here, we investigate the ways in which men and the construction of masculinities are affected by ongoing restructuring processes that mark the move from Fordism to post-Fordism. Within the politics of masculinity in Europe, Caring Masculinities denote a key route towards the development of non-dominant masculinities. We discuss to what extent this can be a useful theoretical concept for research in this area.

Gender inequality persists in academia. This review article examines how universities around the world act on gender inequalities through gender equality measures. The analytical hypothesis is that gender equality measures are a response to how problems of inequality are understood and, as such, they also reveal why inequalities are sustained in academia. A wide variety of approaches are in use, but this article focuses on three of the most common: gender mainstreaming, affirmative action, and mentoring programs. The review recognized a global pattern of gender discrimination in academia as well as differences between countries and disciplines. The article departs from a critical gender-equality approach provided by current feminist research. It concludes that gender equality measures focus mainly on women and men, ignoring intersecting categories of discrimination, and that weaknesses in implementing meritocratic practices play a key role in upholding inequalities. The article suggests that critical feminist knowledge can help lead the way toward more challenging perspectives on gender equality in academia, in which relations of power, local and national contextualizations, as well as intersecting categories of discrimination can be made visible.

Right-wing misogyny is nothing new, but we are clearly witnessing a fresh and significant global rise of reactionary right-wing movements and governments. This upswing is notable for the specific, ...

In research using self-report measures, there is little attention paid to how participants interpret concepts; instead, researchers often assume definitions are shared, universal, or easily understood. I discuss the self-anchored ladder, adapted from Cantril’s ladder, which is a procedure that simultaneously collects a participant’s self-reported rating and their interpretation of that rating. Drawing from a study about sexual satisfaction that included a self-anchored ladder, four analyses are presented and discussed in relation to one another: (1) comparisons of sexual satisfaction scores, (2) variations of structures participants applied to the ladder, (3) frequency of terms used to describe sexual satisfaction, and (4) thematic analysis of “best” and “worst” sexual satisfaction. These analytic strategies offer researchers a model for how to incorporate self-anchored ladder items into research designs as a means to draw out layers of meaning in quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods data. I argue that the ladder invites the potential for conceptual disruption by prioritizing skepticism in survey research and bringing greater attention to how social locations, histories, economic structures, and other factors shape self-report data. I also address issues related to the multiple epistemological positions that the ladder demands. Finally, I argue for the centrality of epistemological self-reflexivity in critical feminist psychological research. Additional online materials for this article are available on PWQ’s website at http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/suppl/10.1177/0361684317725985

Feminist research rediscovers the full scope of leadership by reform women and their organizations in initiating the American playground movement by creating playgrounds across the country. The multiple meanings of play and playground landscapes developed from interrelated ideological conceptions of motherhood and childhood that evolved over 200 years. Traditional domestic feminine identity was masculinized to authorize women to create public-sphere playgrounds. Team games merged feminine and masculine values to create new intersectional identities by teaching boys a feminized masculinity and girls a masculinized femininity. Reconnaissance surveys of historic playgrounds in Boston and Detroit found that playgrounds declined after 1950.

In the following series of collage poems about MotherWork composed from family artifacts, feminist research, and systematic recollections, I use words and images to queer staid understandings of White middle-class mothering. The MotherWork collages serve as a kind of queer Pinterest scrapbook that critique and interrogate expectations and attitudes about what mothers should do, think, and feel.

Feminist economics has contributed to the understanding of the economic importance of care work. Most studies find a wage penalty associated with caring occupations. This study extends the feminist research on care work beyond caring occupations by identifying specific caring skills and activities derived from the 2014 O*NET job-evaluation data. Four caring skills – (1) Assisting and Caring for Others, (2) Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships, (3) Service Orientation, and (4) Social Perceptiveness – were used in ordinary least-squares and quantile wage regressions for 623 occupations in the United States. Findings indicate that the return to caring and assisting skills results in a wage penalty for low-wage workers but a wage premium for workers in high-wage and male occupations. By identifying the impact of gender and class on the economic return to particular caring skills, the study broadens the understanding of care work, especially in relation to US wage inequality.

The literature concurs that war is the friend of binarisms, leaving little place for complex identities. This concurrence is the starting point of this scholarly investigation. The chapter addresses the important lack in Critical Studies on Security of narrative research on violent state actors. To understand violence, however, scholars must listen to and explore the narratives of those who are committing violence in the context of armed conflicts. Chapter 2, then, presents the authors’ perspectives about engaging with violent state actors in a non-binary manner and lays down the theoretical foundation of the book. The chapter prompts scholars to be critical of widely accepted knowledge and binary conceptions in military studies. The chapter thus seeks ways to produce emancipatory knowledge and to be critical without being exclusionary, thereby expanding the framework of Feminist IR and knowledge about women in combat.

Feminist groups have a voice in clinical psychology and psychoanalysis as well as in social, developmental, industrial/organizational, educational psychology, and so forth, and they work together with considerable political clout on issues arising within the organization as a whole. An analysis of citation patterns in the literature, however, would probably confirm the impression of many who participate in interdisciplinary activities that feminist psychology and psychologists are relatively isolated from feminist scholarship in other disciplines. Carol Gilligan's research and writing have focused on three interrelated topics, all of which have both critical implications for traditional psychological theories and positive suggestions for future interdisciplinary feminist research. Feminist scholars in disciplines other than psychology have drawn on Gilligan's work with unusual enthusiasm, in part because it is almost universally read by feminists against a theoretical background previously laid out by Dorothy Dinnerstein and especially by Nancy Chodorow.

Background Most women who have a caesarean can safely have a vaginal birth after caesarean (VBAC) for their next birth, but more women have an elective repeat caesarean than a VBAC. Methods The aim of this qualitative study was to explore the experiences of women planning a vaginal birth after caesarean (VBAC) in Australia, the interactions with their health care providers and their thoughts, feelings and experiences after an antenatal appointment and following the birth. The study explored the effect of different models of care on women’s relationships with their health care provider using a feminist theoretical lens. Eleven women who had previously experienced a caesarean section and were planning a VBAC in their current pregnancy used the ‘myVBACapp’ to record their thoughts after their antenatal appointments and were followed up with in-depth interviews in the postnatal period. Results Fifty-three antenatal logs and eleven postnatal interviews were obtained over a period of eight months in 2017. Women accessed a variety of models of care. The four contextual factors found to influence whether a woman felt resolved after having a VBAC or repeat caesarean were: ‘having confidence in themselves and in their health care providers’, ‘having control’, ‘having a supportive relationship with a health care provider’ and ‘staying active in labour’. Conclusions The findings highlight that when women have high feelings of control and confidence; have a supportive continual relationship with a health care provider; and are able to have an active labour; it can result in feelings of resolution, regardless of mode of birth. Women’s sense of control and confidence can be undermined through the impact of paternalistic and patriarchal maternity systems by maintaining women’s subordination and lack of control within the system. Women planning a VBAC want confident, skilled, care providers who can support them to feel in control and confident throughout the birthing process. Continuity of care (CoC) provides a supportive relationship which some women in this study found beneficial when planning a VBAC. Electronic supplementary material The online version of this article (10.1186/s12884-019-2297-4) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.

As awareness of and frustration with sexism in academia grows, so too do strategies of resistance. This chapter explores the concept of ‘resistance’ in relation to gender-based violence (GBV) in universities. In this context, ‘resistance’ includes work, much of it inspired by a feminist analysis, to prevent GBV, to hold institutions to account and to change university cultures so that they no longer invisibilise or condone GBV. Resistance to such efforts also comes from those who would support the status quo and those critical of the framing of anti-GBV campaigns. This chapter will explore how the ‘backlash’ against feminism and post-feminist equalisation discourses comprises types of resistance to radical attempts to eradicate this form of sexism in the academy.