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Hamilton, P. (2020). ‘Now that I know what you’re about’: Black feminist reflections on power in the research relationship. Qualitative Research, 20(5), 519-533.
Haraway, D. (1988). Situated knowledges: The science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective. Feminist Studies, 14(3), pp. 575-599.
Mohanty, C. T. (1988). Under Western eyes: feminist scholarship and colonial discourses. Feminist Review, (30), pp.61-88.
Smith, C. A., Williams, E. L., Wadud, I. A., Pirtle, W. N., & Cite Black Women Collective. (2021). Cite black women: A critical praxis (a statement). Feminist Anthropology, 2(1), 10-17.
Methodology of the Oppressed by
A new approach to feminist thought that challenges current critical theories. In a work with far-reaching implications, Chela Sandoval does no less than revise the genealogy of theory over the past thirty years, inserting what she terms "U.S. Third World feminism" into the narrative in a way that thoroughly alters our perspective on contemporary culture and subjectivity. What Sandoval has identified is a language, a rhetoric of resistance to postmodern cultural conditions. U.S. liberation movements of the post-World War II era generated specific modes of oppositional consciousness. Out of these emerged a new activity of consciousness and language Sandoval calls the "methodology of the oppressed." This methodology--born of the strains of the cultural and identity struggles that currently mark global exchange--holds out the possibility of a new historical moment, a new citizen-subject, and a new form of alliance consciousness and politics. Utilizing semiotics and U.S. Third World feminist criticism, Sandoval demonstrates how this methodology mobilizes love as a category of critical analysis. Rendering this approach in all its specifics, Methodology of the Oppressed gives rise to an alternative mode of criticism opening new perspectives on any theoretical, literary, aesthetic, social movement, or psychic expression.
Woman, Native, Other by
... methodologically innovative... precise and perceptive and conscious... " --Text and Performance Quarterly Woman, Native, Other is located at the juncture of a number of different fields and disciplines, and it genuinely succeeds in pushing the boundaries of these disciplines further. It is one of the very few theoretical attempts to grapple with the writings of women of color." --Chandra Talpade Mohanty The idea of Trinh T. Minh-ha is as powerful as her films... formidable... " --Village Voice ... its very forms invite the reader to participate in the effort to understand how language structures lived possibilities." --Artpaper Highly recommended for anyone struggling to understand voices and experiences of those 'we' label 'other'." --Religious Studies Review
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