Introducing multidisciplinarity and facet methodology approaches to gender

Kath Woodward and Sophie Woodward

Chapter 1 in Gender Studies, 2025, pp 1-21 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: The introductory chapter sets the book's approach to exploring the interrelationship between gender and multidisciplinarity by considering how gender plays out in particular disciplines, empirically in terms of representation and theoretically in relation to the epistemological stance of different disciplines. A focus on gender tells us who is studying, teaching and researching what, and gender theory gives us some idea why, at different times, for example in STEM subjects and economics and in the social sciences and humanities, through examples of gender, in the lived experience of different disciplines, including medicine and economics. We address the links between theories and methods and explain facet methodology as our approach to multidisciplinarity and the different facets of gender which we explore. These facets include everyday life, power and politics, the voices of women who have been hidden from history, bodies and embodiment, and law rules and regulation, which lead each chapter which follows. In Chapter 1 we map out developments in theorising gender and its intersection with other axes of power, such as race, class and disability. We explore conceptualisations of gender and how classificatory systems have changed in work from Ann Oakley to Judith Butler through conversations with Simone de Beauvoir's feminist phenomenology.

Keywords: Gender theories; Sex and gender; Facet methodology; Multidisciplinary; Interdisciplinary; Social change (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781800373945
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