Book:
Hesse-Biber, Sharlene Nagy and Michelle L. Yaiser (eds). Feminist Perspectives on Social Research. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Texts from this antholgy are marked *. You may purchase this anthology at Akademika (the campus bookstore)
Course reader (Compendium), online texts and web-resources: The remaining texts are available in a course-reader or may either be downloaded via the UIO server (marked web or pdf)
1. Introduction and overview : feminist research/methodology I
*Hesse-Biber, Sharlene Nagy, Patricia Leavy and Michelle L. Yaiser: "Feminist Approaches to Research as a Process: Reconceptualizing Epistemology, Methodology, and Method" in *Hesse-Biber, Sharlene Nagy and Michelle L. Yaiser (eds). : Feminist Perspectives on Social Research, 2004. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 3-22 (19 p).
Scott, Joan W: "Feminism's History" in Journal of Women's History. Vol. 16.2 , 2004. 10-26 (16 p). Link.
*Hesse-Biber, Sharlene Nagy and Denise Leckenby: "How Feminists Practice Social Research" in *Hesse-Biber, Sharlene Nagy and Michelle L. Yaiser (eds). : Feminist Perspectives on Social Research, 2004. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 209-225 (16 p).
Moi, Toril: "Representation of Patriarchy: Sexuality and Epistemology in Freud's "Dora." " in Feminist Review, No. 9 , 1981. 60-74 (14 p). Link.
2. Introduction and overview : feminist research/methodology II
Moi, Toril: "'I am not a woman writer' About women, literature and feminist theory today" in Feminist theory. Vol. 9:3 , 2008. 259 -268. (9). Link.
Widerberg, Karin: "Disciplinization of Gender Studies. Old Questions, New Answers? Nordic Strategies in the European Context" in NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research Vol 14.2 , 2006. 131-139 (8 p). Link.
Roseneil, Sasha : "Criticality, Not Paranoia: A Generative Register for Feminist Social Research" in NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research. 19: 2 , 2011. 124-130. (6 p). Link.
3) Quantitative and/or Qualitative methods
*Hollander, Jocelyn A: "Vulnerability and Dangerousness: The Construction of Gender through Conversation about Violence" in *Hesse-Biber, Sharlene Nagy and Michelle L. Yaiser (eds) : Feminist Perspectives on Social Research, 2004. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 296-317 (21 p).
Letherby, Gayle: Feminist research in theory and practice, 2003. Buckingham and Philadelphia: Open University Press. 80-98 (18 p) .
4) Objectivity, Standpoint Theory
*Smith, Dorothy E: "Women’s Perspective as a Radical Critique of Sociology” Feminist Approaches to Research as a Process: Reconceptualizing Epistemology, Methodology, and Method" in *Hesse-Biber, Sharlene Nagy and Michelle L. Yaiser (eds). : Feminist Perspectives on Social Research, 2004. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 27-38 (11 p).
*Harding, Sandra: "Rethinking Standpoint Epistemology: What is strong objectivity?" in *Hesse-Biber, Sharlene Nagy and Michelle L. Yaiser (eds): Feminist Perspectives on Social Research, 2004. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 39-58 (19 p).
*Bhavnani, Kum-Kum: "Tracing the Contours: Feminist Research Objectivity" in *Hesse-Biber, Sharlene Nagy and Michelle L. Yaiser (eds): Feminist Perspectives on Social Research, 2004. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 65-75. (10 p).
5) Epistemology
*Sprague, Joey and Dinane Kobrynowicz: "A Feminist Epistemology" in *Hesse-Biber, Sharlene Nagy and Michelle L. Yaiser (eds): Feminist Perspectives on Social Research, 2004. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 78-94. (16 p).
Doeuff, M. L : The Sex of Knowing, 2003. London:Routledge. An Epistemology of Hope, 143-216 (73 p) .
Fox Keller, Evelyn: "The Gender/Science System: Or, Is Sex to Gender as Nature Is to Science? " in Hypatia. Vol. 2.3 , 1987. 37-49 (13 p). Link.
Moi, Toril: What is a Woman? , 1999. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Patriarchal Thought and the Drive for Knowledge, 348-368 (20 p).
6) Gender Studies, Sexuality, Intersectionality
*Hesse-Biber, Sharlene Nagy, Patricia and Michelle L. Yaiser. : "Difference Matters: Studying Across Race, Class, Gender, and sexuality" in *Hesse-Biber, Sharlene Nagy and Michelle L. Yaiser (eds) : Feminist Perspectives on Social Research, 2004. Oxford:Oxford University Press. 101-117 (16 p).
Harding, Sandra: "" in *Hesse-Biber, Sharlene Nagy and Michelle L. Yaiser (eds): Feminist Perspectives on Social Research, 2004. Oxford:Oxford University Press. 177-195 (18 p).
Weston, Kath: "Fieldwork in Lesbian and Gay Communities" in *Hesse-Biber, Sharlene Nagy and Michelle L. Yaiser (eds): Feminist Perspectives on Social Research, 2004. Oxford:Oxford University Press. 98-204 (6 p).
7) Language, writing, the semiotic
*Devault, Marjorie L: "Talking and Listening from Women's Standpoint: Feminist strategies for Interviewing and Analysis" in *Hesse-Biber, Sharlene Nagy and Michelle L. Yaiser (eds): Feminist Perspectives on Social Research, 2004. Oxford:Oxford University Press. 227-246 (19 p).
*Geiger, Susan: "What's So Feminist about Women's Oral History?" in *Hesse-Biber, Sharlene Nagy and Michelle L. Yaiser (eds): Feminist Perspectives on Social Research, 2004. Oxford:Oxford University Press. 399-408 (9 p).
*Errante, Antoinette: "But Sometimes You're Not Part of the Story" in *Hesse-Biber, Sharlene Nagy and Michelle L. Yaiser (eds): Feminist Perspectives on Social Research, 2004. Oxford:Oxford University Press. 411-431 (20 p).
Widerberg, Karin: "Women 's experiences--text or relation? Looking at research practices from a sociological and feminist perspective" in NORA. vol 4. 2 , 1996. 128 -136 (8 p) .
Kristeva, Julia: Revolution in Poetic Language, 1984. New York: Colombia University Press. From part 1 The semiotic and the symbolic : 1. “The Phenomenological Subject of Enunciation” (21-24); 2. “The Semiotic Chora Ordering the Drives” (25-30); 5. “The Thetic: Rupture and/or Boundary” (43-45); 6. “The Mirror and Castration: Positing the Subject as Absent from the Signifier” (46-51); and 12. “Genotext and Phenotext” (86-89). (18 p).
8) Translation and Travelling Concepts
Widerberg, Karin: "Translating Gender" in NORA. Vol. 6. 2 , 1998. 133 -138 (5 p). Link.
Lempiainen, Kirsti: "A Short Introduction to the Use of ’sex’ and ’gender’ in the Scandinavian Languages" in Rosi Braidotti and Esther Vonk (Eds) Utrecht: The making of European Women’s Studies. A work in progress report on curriculum development and related issues , 2000. ATHENA. 24-25 (2 s).
Mehrez, Samia: "Translating Gender" in Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 3.1 , 2006. 106-126. (10 p). Link.
Rosi, Braidotti: "The Uses and Abuses of the Sex/Gender Distinction in European Feminist Practices" in Griffin, Gabriele and Braidotti, Rosi (eds): Thinking Differently. A European Women's Studies Reader, 2002. London: Zed Books. 285-304 (19 p).
Spivak, Gayatri C: "The Politics of Translation" in Ed. Lawrence Venuti: The Translation Studies Reader, 2000. London: Routledge. 397-414. (17 p) .
Bal, M: Travelling Concepts in the Humanities: a Rough Guide, 2002. University of Toronto Press. 22-55 (33 p).
9. Culture, Materiality and Technology
Moore, Henrietta: Feminism and Anthropology, 1988. Oxford: Polity Press. 12-41 (30 p).
Haraway, Donna: "A Manifesto for Cyborgs: Science, Technology, and Socialist Feminism in the 1980s" in Ed. Linda Nicholson: Feminism/Postmodernism, 1990. New York and London: Routledge. 190-223 (33 p) .
Skeggs, Beverley: "The moral economy of person production: the class relations of self-performance on ‘reality’ television" in The Sociological Review Vol. 57.4, 2009. 626–644, (18). Link.
Skeggs, Beverley: "Context and Background: Pierre Bourdieu's analysis of class, gender and sexuality" in The Sociological Review. Vol. 52, 2004. 19–33, (14). Link.
Howie, Gillian: Between Feminism and Materialism, 2010. New York:Palgrave. “Production” ch. 1, 11-34 (23 p).
De Lauretis, Teresa: Alice Doesn’t: feminism, semiotics and cinema, 1984. Bloomington: Indiana U.P. 12-36. (24 p) .
Barthes, Roland: Selections from Mythologies. , 1993. London: Vintage. 2 p.
Supplementary Reading:
1. Introduction and overview : feminist research/methodology I
Najmabadi, Afsaneh. "From Supplementarity to Parasitism?" Journal of Women's History, Vol. 16.2 (2004): 30-35 (reply to Scott) (5 p). Web.
Hammonds, Evelynn Maxine. ”Power and Politics in Feminism's History--and Future.” Journal of Women's History, Vol. 16.2 (2004): 36-39 (3 p).Web.
2. Introduction and overview : feminist research/methodology II
Kathleen A. Laughlin, Julie Gallagher, Dorothy Sue Cobble et. al. "Is It Time to Jump Ship? Historians Rethink the Waves Metaphor." Feminist Formations, Vol. 22. 1 (Spring 2010): 76-135 DOI: 10.1353/nwsa.0.0118Web
4) Objectivity, Standpoint Theory
Harding, Sandra G. "A Socially Relevant Philosophy of Science? Resources from Standpoint Theory's Controversiality." Hypatia. Vol. 19.1 (Winter 2004): 25-47. web: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/hyp/summary/v019/19.1harding.html
Schiebinger, Londa L. "Feminist History of Colonial Science." Hypatia, Vol. 19.1 (Winter 2004) 233-254. web: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/hyp/summary/v019/19.1schiebinger.html
5) Epistemology
Fox Keller, Evelyn. "Developmental Biology as a Feminist Cause? Osiris." Vol. 12, Women, Gender, and Science: New Directions (1997):16-28 (13 p). Web:: http://www.jstor.org/stable/301896
Oliver, Kelly. "Keller's Gender/Science System: Is the Philosophy of Science to Science as Science Is to Nature?" Hypatia. Vol. 3.3. French Feminist Philosophy (Winter, 1989): 137-148 (12 p) Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3809793
Maienschein, Jane. "Making Sense of Life: Explaining Biological Development with Models, Metaphors, and Machines by Evelyn Fox Keller." The Quarterly Review of Biology. Vol. 78.1 (March 2003) 86-87 review of Fox Keller (2 p ) Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/377828
7) Language, writing, the semiotic
Widerberg, Karin.”Teaching gender through writing ’experience stories’.” Women's Studies International Forum, Vol. 21. 2 (1988): 193-198. (web/pdf).
Bal, Mieke. “Theses on the Use of Narrtalogy for Cultural Analysis.” Narratology: Introduction to the Theory of Narrative. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2009. 225-233.
8) Translation and Travelling Concepts http://www.travellingconcepts.net/Introduction.htm
gender: http://www.travellingconcepts.net/gender.html
gender studies: http://www.travellingconcepts.net/genderstudies.html
http://www.let.uu.nl/womens_studies/athena
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. "Questioned on Translation: Adrift." Public Culture. Vol. 13.1 (Winter 200) 13-22. WEB http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/public_culture/v013/13.1spivak.html
Spivak:, Gayatri Chakravorty. "Translation as Culture." Parallax. Vol. 6. 1 (2000):13-24. WEB: DOI: 10.1080/135346400249252 http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a741921173~db=all
Spivak, Gayatri Chakravorty. More Thoughts on Cultural Translation 04/2008 WEB: http://eipcp.net/transversal/0608/spivak/en
Apter, Emily. ”Untranslatables: A World System” New Literary History. Vol. 39.3 (Summer 2008) 581-598. WEB: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/nlh/summary/v039/39.3.apter.html
Apter, Emily. On Translation in a Global Market. Public Culture 13.1 (2001) 1-12 WEB:
9:Culture, Materiality and Technology
Skeggs, Beverley. “Theorising, ethics and representation in feminist ethnography.” Feminist Cultural Theory. Ed. Beverley Skeggs. Manchester : Manchester University Press, 1995. 190-206
Strathern, Marilyn. ”An Awkward Relationship: The Case of Feminism and Anthropology” Signs. Vol. 12. 2. Reconstructing the Academy (Winter, 1987). 276-292. web: http://www.jstor.org/stable/3173986 http://www.jstor.org/openurl?volume=12&date=1987&spage=276&issn=00979740&issue=2
Strathern, Marilyn. ”Binary License.” Common knowledge. 17.1 (2011):87 -103 Web: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/common_knowledge/v017/17.1.strathern.html
Barthes, Roland. Mytologier. Norwegian trans. Einar Eggen. Oslo: Gyldendal, 1999. Web: http://www.nb.no/bokhylla