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Feminism - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Sexual division of labour has meant that all women share a distinctive experience of life - Randall, 2010
      - Standpoint theory has been charged with essentialism - what about substantial differences to women's lives - Randall, 2010
  - - - With its focus on individual calculation of self-interest, presupposed a model of moral free agency. Rather than considering how they were produced, 'The origins and processes of development of individual preferences (were) taken as "givens".
    - - We should not think of interests as existing 'out there' and able to be simply read off from categories of class, gender, race and so on. Interests should be understood as 'precarious historical products', representing a multiplicity of subject positions and discursively articulated through the political process itself.
- - - - Gender and sex are both constructed - Nicholson, 1995, Randall, 2010
      - The anatomical body is a discursive construct, where the very notion of corporeality is problematised - Randall, 2010
      - Does deconstructing and underminding masculine foundational concepts, remove the intellectual grounding of feminism as a political project? - Randall, 2010
  - - - High-politics and politics as a profession still male-dominated - Randall, 2010
      - 'gender politics has not been fully integrated into the political science; its theories, questions, and conclusion have not been 'mainstreamed' to any significant degree' - Sapiro, 1998, Randall, 2010
- - - - For traditional ways of understanding the origin of scientific problems or hypotheses are irrelevant to the 'goodness' of the results of the research - Harding, 1987
      - In the best of feminist research, the purposes of research and analysis are not separable from the origins of research problems - Harding, 1987
    - - Examples of questions which are male-centred
- - - - More objectivity as it broadens the base from which we derive knowledge, and because the perspective of "outsiders" or marginalised people may reveal aspects of reality obscured by more orthodox approaches to knowledge-building