Artikel
An epistemology of gender - an aspect of being as a way of knowing
Verfasst von:
Wickramasinghe, Maithree
in:
Women's studies international forum
2006
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Heft:
6
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606 - 611 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Wickramasinghe, Maithree |
| In: | Women's studies international forum |
| Jahr: | 2006 |
| Heft: | 6 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| This article examines the concept of gender as applied in Sri Lankan Women's/Gender Studies, and discusses the methodological assumptions behind the usages of the concept. It is based on theoretical understandings of contemporary currents in non/post-positivist methodologies, feminist theory and epistemologies, as well as postmodernism and postcolonialism. the author argues for the conceptualisation of gender as ontology in local feminist research/writing by referring to the multiple conceptual constructions of gender as aspects of being-spanning gendered identities to societal systems. Then she focusses on gender as epistemology with regard to the ways in which Sri Lankan feminists use gender as political aspirations, theoretical constructs, analytical categories and methodologies. She argues that politicized experiences of gender are at the crux of conceptualising realities in formal knowledge. And conversely, that the gender realities conceptualized in knowledge also mediate in the actual enactments of realities; that gender epistemology (or a way of knowing) is also ontology (or a sense of being). This can be summed up with the convoluted statement that gender ontology as epistemology is gender epistemology as ontology. | |
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