Defining feminism and feminist theory is challenging, but most feminist criminologists agree that it is more than just adding women to pre-conceived notions of crime and social control. In its most confined sense, feminism is a collection of political ideologies focused on women’s oppression to advance women’s equality through strategies for social change. In a more comprehensive, multifaceted sense and in terms of feminist scholarship, feminism is an array of interconnected contextual frames utilized for the observation, analysis and interpretation of the
is imperative that the chances of indirect trauma and other unintended consequences of participation in research studies are minimised through the use of trauma-informed research methodologies. The infusion of a feminist theoretical lens into trauma-informed research methods Feminist theory is used not only in therapeutic approaches with clients who have trauma histories ( Clemans, 2006 ; Cohen, 2008 ; Richmond et al, 2013 ; Tseris, 2013 ), but also in the methods used to study interventions and organisations ( Beckman, 2014 ). While there are several
black feminist theory and intersectionality, a theoretical and political approach that is fundamentally relational. Black feminist theory begins from the experiences of those who are marginalised, foregrounding the intersection of racism, sexism and capitalism as structures that both constrain black women’s lives and generate resistance ( Combahee River Collective, 1977 ; Collins, 2000 ). Attention to this dynamic is one of the defining features of black feminist scholarship and inspires a methodological approach that views research as a co-creation and centres
143 Evidence & Policy • vol 15 • no 1 • 143–59 • © Policy Press 2019 Print ISSN 1744 2648 • Online ISSN 1744 2656 • https://doi.org/10.1332/174426417X14881935664929 Accepted for publication 22 February 2017 • First published online 01 March 2017 debate What can feminist theory offer policy implementation challenges? Gemma Carey, g.carey@adfa.edu.au Helen Dickinson, h.dickinson@adfa.edu.au Sue Olney, s.olney@unsw.edu.au University of New South Wales Canberra, Australia Implementation has long been a vexed issue in the mainstream public policy literature
Introduction The explorations in this chapter are guided by shared affinities between public sociology and feminist theory. Whereas public sociology is committed to dialogic knowledge production, bringing sociological theory into conversation with the voices of marginalised groups, feminist examinations of social, political, economic and cultural practices that produce racialised, gendered and sexualised subject positions have produced analytical categories that enhance understandings of relations of domination and subordination as well as subsequent policy
Women’s increased role in the labour market has combined with concerns about the damaging effects of long working hours to push time-related issues up the policy agenda in many Western nations. This wide-ranging and accessible book assesses policy alternatives in the light of feminist theory and factual evidence.
The book introduces mainstream ideas on the nature and political significance of time and re-frames them from a feminist perspective to provide a critical overview of policies in Western welfare states. Themes covered include gender differences in time use and the impact of ‘time poverty’ on women’s citizenship; the need to value time spent giving and receiving care; the social meanings of time and whether we can talk about ‘women’s time’ and ‘men’s time’; and the role of the past in framing policy options today.
The book is essential reading for all those interested in gender inequality, time-use or work/rest-of-life balance. It will be an invaluable resource for students and academics throughout the social sciences.
This article aims to understand the emergence of the academic field of critical studies on racism, and its intersectionality with gender and class in the last three decades, in Brazilian criminology. It identifies the core elements of a specific grammar on epistemological perspectives, academic agendas, and political solutions. At the same time, it points to the participation of new subjects, subjectivities, and relations of academic production and dissemination. It also explores the impact of the post-Durban Conference Era (2001) – the crisis of the ideology of racial democracy – on scientific production on inequality and the negative effects of the criminal justice system. It proposes an explanation for the changes in academic production stemming from the transformations of Brazilian public universities.
We claim the importance of this epistemological and methodological renewal to address the inequalities of the criminal justice system: the incorporation of new concepts and perspectives such as genocide, whiteness, epistemicide, intersectionality, and necropolitics; the emphasis on the production of Black intellectuals, historically ignored by the academy, who thematised dimensions of racial violence from their experience and political struggle; the emergence of new research networks throughout Brazil and new profiles of researchers, an effect of racial diversity resulting from affirmative action in higher education; more dialogue between academic research and the demands of social movements; new social movements that actively used the media to confront police and prison violence.
The definition of data in qualitative research is expanding. This book highlights the value of embodiment as a qualitative research tool and outlines what it means to do embodied research at various points of the research process. It shows how using this non-invasive approach with vulnerable research participants, such as migrant, refugee and asylum seeking women can help service users or research participants to be involved in the co- production of services and in participatory research.
Drawing on both feminist and post-colonial theory, the author uses her own research with migrant women in London, focusing specifically on collage making and digital storytelling, whilst also considering other potential tools for practicing embodied research such as yoga, personal diaries, dance and mindfulness. Situating the concept of ‘embodiment’ on the map of research methodologies, the book combines theoretical groundwork with actual examples of application to think pragmatically about intersectionality through embodiment.
Attachment parenting is an increasingly popular style of childrearing that emphasises ‘natural’ activities such as extended breastfeeding, bedsharing and babywearing. Such parenting activities are framed as the key to addressing a variety of social ills. Parents’ choices are thus made deeply significant with the potential to guarantee the well-being of future societies.
Examining black mothers’ engagements with attachment parenting, Hamilton shows the limitations of this neoliberal approach. Unique in its intersectional analysis of contemporary mothering ideologies, this outstanding book fills a gap in the literature on parenting culture studies, drawing on black feminist theorizing to analyse intensive mothering practices and policies.
Black Mothers and Attachment Parenting is shortlisted for the 2021 BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize.
Sweden is often considered one of the most gender-equal countries in the world and held up as a model to follow, but the reality is more complex. This is the first book to explode the myth of Swedish gender equality, both offering a new perspective for an international audience, and suggesting how equality might be rethought more generally.
While the authors argue that the gender-equality mantra in Sweden has led to a society with increased opportunities for some, they also assert that the dominant norm of gender equality has become nationalistic and builds upon heteronormative and racial principles. Examining the changing meanings and parameters of gender equality against the country’s social-democratic tradition and in the light of contemporary neoliberal ideologies, the book constitutes an urgent contribution to the debates about gender-equality policies and politics.
