Feminist Research and Representing the Other

Diane Chilangwa Farmer

Chapter 4 in Black Women in Management, 2013, pp 60-79 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Within feminist writings, the issue of identity and difference in the analysis of women’s lives has received significant attention from both Western and non-Western feminists (Anzaldua, 1990; Hartsock, 1998; Hill Collins, 1990, 2000;hooks, 2000;Imam et al., 1997;Mama, 1996;Mohanty, 1991; Narayan, 1997; Oyewemi, 1997). In the past, a homogenised notion of ‘woman’ often remained unquestioned within feminist literature, with the experiences of white middle-class women often universalised to Other categories of women irrespective of race, ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, nationality and socio-cultural differences.1 According to African feminist scholars Beoku-Betts and Njambi (2005:113), this homogenisation in effect ignored or ultimately dismissed the agency of historically marginalised groups of women whose modes of identity and self-definition did not fit into traditional discourses on gender.

Keywords: Black Woman; Research Participant; Feminist Theory; Life Story; African Woman (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137335432_4

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