Beschreibung:
This book serves as a forum for several interventions that explore synergetic potentials as well as tensions between the philosophical approach of critical realism and various feminist perspectives. It was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Critical Realism.
Introduction - Critical Realism, Gender and Feminism: Exchanges, Challenges, Synergies 1. Theorizing Agency and Domination through a Critical Realist Perspective on Gender Positionality 2. Critical Realist and Postpositivist Realist Feminisms: Towards a Feminist Dialectical Realism 3. Comparing Critical Realism and the Situated Knowledges Approach in Research on (In)equity in Health Care: An Exploration of their Implications 4. Agency and Ontology within Intersectional Analysis: A Critical Realist Contribution 5. Queer Genes: Realism, Sexuality and Science 6. Beyond The Nature/Culture Divide? The Contradictions of Rosi Braidotti's The Posthuman 7. Review - Pursuing Intersectionality, Unsettling Dominant Imaginaries, by Vivian M. May 8. Review - The Feminine Subject, by Susan Hekman