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What is Feminist Standpoint Theory

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Handbook of Research on Communication Strategies for Taboo Topics
A form of epistemology that claims that knowledge is grounded in one’s social position.
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Challenging the Taboo Against Personal Abortion Accounts: Towards a Discourse of Strong Objectivity
Lisa Comparini (Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi, USA)
Copyright: © 2022 |Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-9125-3.ch015
Abstract
The present chapter is an analysis of how 10 women described their positions on abortion prior to and after deciding to terminate an unplanned pregnancy. The discursive features of their pre- and post-decision accounts are contrasted, noting the ways their pre-abortion accounts resembled the generalized, impartial, simplistic accounts that characterize political abortion rhetoric, and how they reframed and reconstructed more experiential, complex, integrated, and objective accounts, which then informed their changed position on the issue of abortion.
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Wearing All Our Hats at Once: Stories of Women as Mothers, Teachers, and Academics During a Pandemic
A theory supporting the use of women’s personal stories as a lens to view the unique circumstances of their social group.
Published in Chapter: Wearing All Our Hats at Once: Stories of Women as Mothers, Teachers, and Academics During a Pandemic; From: Handbook of Research on Inequities in Online Education During Global Crises
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The Question of Gender Equality: A Feminist Perspective
The belief that individual’s social and historical location or perspective contributes to knowledge, whereby a woman who has experienced oppression will be in a better position to understand another woman’s oppressed state.
Published in Chapter: The Question of Gender Equality: A Feminist Perspective; From: Handbook of Research on New Dimensions of Gender Mainstreaming and Women Empowerment
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Breastfeeding, Authority, and Genre: Women's Ethos in Wikipedia and Blogs
A method of knowledge creation first defined by Harding (1993 , 2003 ) that presupposes complete objectivity can never be reached because all knowledge is culturally situated. Instead, researchers can achieve “strong objectivity” that acknowledges and includes many perspectives.
Published in Chapter: Breastfeeding, Authority, and Genre: Women's Ethos in Wikipedia and Blogs; From: Innovations in Global Maternal Health: Improving Prenatal and Postnatal Care Practices
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