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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"standpoint epistemology"”.
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Experience and practice : gendered knowledge as a challenge to our epistemological paradigm
Feminist epistemology has two aims: to show the androcentrism present in certain paradigmatic accounts of what counts as good knowledge and to provide us with alternatives. In this thesis I will follow that tradition and I will argue for a new epistemological paradigm that avoids androcentrism and …
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Embodied and Emotional Knowledge of Oppression: Positive Contributions of a Relational Feminist Standpoint Theory
… With these goals in mind, I defend an epistemology that considers the importance of the social location of knowers. I turn to feminist standpoint theory as a theory that can address these problems. I argue that incorporating relational theory into standpoint epistemology enables us to …
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Intersections of Welfare and Child Welfare Systems and Single Mothers' Activism in the U.S.
… and narrative analysis, based on feminist standpoint epistemology. The findings of this study reveal that the combination of two systems after welfare reform created the material and symbolic conditions that blame and punish single mothers for having children without resources. Enacting a …
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Twenty-First Century Working-Class Girls' Imagined Futures: A Child-Centred Socialist Feminist Research Project
… of socialisation. The child-centred feminist standpoint epistemology focuses on hearing the girls’ voices through co-participatory research methods. Key findings demonstrate these working-class girls are highly media literate, who wish to challenge media representations, that exclude “girls …
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Fertility, feminism, and family policy : a study of Québec demographic discourse and government documents, 1970-1997
… proposes a framework which combines a feminist standpoint epistemology with a synthesis of the concepts of patriarchy and ideology. A subsequent review of the Québec demographic literature since 1970 reveals the divergence between mainstream and feminist demographic discourse in terms of the …
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Gated Entry and Code: A Critical Feminist Inquiry Into English as Gendered Symbolic Power Amongst Multilingual Indian Women
… and taken up from a critical lens and a feminist standpoint epistemology, this largely exploratory design traded breadth for depth and engaged in the creation of a third space in order to examine these women’s language ideologies and experiences. The three major findings of this research include: …
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Why is autism a disability? Examining an argument for intersectional neurodiversity
… autism, is suggested as a corrective. Feminist standpoint epistemology is adapted to demonstrate that autistic perception is valuable in remedying the prevailing distorted image of autism caused by the lack of autistic representation. I critically analyse Theory of Mind to suggest an alternative …
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The social construction of female engineers : a qualitative case study of engineering education
… The study is within the framework of feminist standpoint epistemology and uses both qualitative and quantitative methods, giving the study both depth and breadth. The data derive from a demographic survey of one first-year cohort in an engineering college, from non-participant observations in …
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“Forming Ranks”: The Impact of Negative-Destructive Leadership in The Aftermath of Military Sexual Assault and Reporting
… reporting experiences remain understudied. Using standpoint epistemology and a military-specific social ecological approach, this two-stage project investigated how military leaders impacted survivors’ post-assault and reporting experiences, as well as their experiences with military peers, …
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Belief, Values, Bias, and Agency: Development of and Entanglement with "Artificial Intelligence"
… daemonology, postphenomenology, standpoint epistemology, and more. This theoretical apparatus recontextualizes our understanding of how mythologies and rituals of professionalization, disciplinarity, and dominant epistemological hierarchies animate concepts such as knowledge …
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On Covering: Queerness
The literature on the ethics of presenting as queer has been largely confined to a commonly acknowledged phenomenon called "passing," or fully concealing one's membership to a marginalized group. Often employed as a survival strategy, many are sympathetic to the idea that one should be able to pass …
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South Asian females and technology education: A study of engagement and disengagement in Britain
… on anti-racist, feminist, and Black feminist epistemology and methodology. I utilised both quantitative and qualitative methods, within a reflexive framework for gathering and analysing data, in order to respond better to changing research circumstances.. My thesis is intended to make a …
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Becoming a Psychologist: A qualitative study of working-class trainees negotiating class, gender and professional identity in Counselling Psychology
… meaning-making processes, guided by a feminist standpoint epistemology that prioritises marginalised perspectives.<br/><b>Key Findings:</b><br/>Four superordinate themes and eight subthemes emerged and were identified through a rigorous idiographic and interpretative analysis. The first theme, …