Monthly Archives: September 2010

Our readings this week build off our momentum of the last few discussions regarding the delicate balance we must strike as privileged, outsider (sometimes outsider/insider), and perhaps most pertinent to this set of articles, western researchers.  Even methodologies and best … Continue reading →

My final project will explore challenges to the research process, researcher and the women themselves when addressing a population of women living amongst war. Initial questions to be explored are: * How do we study, research, and impact women in … Continue reading →

This week’s readings complicated even further the discussion we were having last week in regards to subjectivity, privilege, and conscious feminists methodologies (why did I not see this coming!).  I enjoyed McDowell’s piece, couldn’t sift through the theoretically-heavy Scott piece, … Continue reading →

I joined a class yesterday that has changed my feminist lens forever, in one class!  I had a moment where my eyes literally welled up because of the overwhelming power of this “Ah-ha!” moment; how could I have missed this … Continue reading →

I walked away from my first semester of women’s studies curriculum understanding there was one clear and present danger: corporate, global power.  Across Feminist Pedagogy (520), Political Sociology (661), Environmental Justice (530), and Gender and Development in Latin America (551), … Continue reading →

Chandra Talpade Mohanty’s revolutionary piece, “Under Western Eyes: Feminists Scholarship and Colonial Discourse” (1984), is brilliant, blunt, and unforgiving in its appraisal of Western feminist scholarship discourse.  Mohanty thoroughly and productively critiques the then current state of “inadequate self-consciousness” (335) and ethnocentrism coming … Continue reading →

As far as feminist methodology goes, I would wholeheartedly agree with the statement, “Important to the concept of research from a gender perspective is the recognition that there is not one specific method or combination of methods that necessarily makes … Continue reading →

As feminists, as intellectuals, as people, as global and local citizens, it is our responsibility to get involved in the issues we study and discuss so passionately. You’ll find on my homepage a list of organizations, non-profits, and NGOs I’ve either … Continue reading →