First Generation Feminist? Auto-Ethnographic Reflections on Politicisation and Finding a Home within Feminism
First Generation Feminist? Auto-Ethnographic Reflections on Politicisation and Finding a Home within Feminism
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第一代女权主义者？
DOI：
10.3390/genealogy3020033
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发表时间：
2019
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0.8
通讯作者：
Vikki Turbine
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作者：
Vikki Turbine
尽管女权主义明显上升，但了解女权主义的人仍然是欺诈和公正的。那么，当女权主义在我们的政治化过程中缺席时，我们如何在女权主义中找到“家”呢？对于工薪阶层学者来说，这个家有多舒适？在本文中，我反思了我的女性主义谱系-从一个贫穷地区的苏格兰小镇的工人阶级女孩成长为英国罗素大学的第一代女性主义学者。本文建立在丰富的研究探索学术界内的工人阶级妇女的女权主义的基础上，通过从事家谱研究来探索一个人如何在女权主义者中发展，这对第一代学者来说也是一个奇怪的地方。作为一名在“后女权主义”的20世纪90年代长大的大学生，我无法接触到女权主义的语言和政治。在我的生命和学术生涯中，我进入女权主义的时间相对较晚--在我的博士研究中，我真正开始从事学术研究，并成为一个名为政治身份的人。我在这篇论文中采用了自我民族志，并反思我们的亲密他人如何总是牵连在我们自己的故事中。这让我能够强调继承的经验、记忆和体现是多么的关键。代际学习可以使我们在学习女性主义的正式语言之前就已经是隐性的女性主义者。我选择讲述的故事和我在这里引用的“记忆”都是为了回应现在让我沮丧的事情而重新制作和回忆的。年轻的女性仍然在讲述着我在这里讲述的同样的故事。
In spite of the apparent rise in feminism, who gets to know about feminism is still fraughtand impartial. How then, do we come to find ‘a home’ in and for feminism when it has been absentfrom our formative politicisation? How comfortable is that home for working-class academics? Inthis paper, I reflect on my feminist genealogy—from growing up as a working-class girl in a smallScottish town in an area of deprivation to becoming a first generation feminist academic in a RussellGroup University in the UK. This paper builds on the wealth of research exploring the trajectoriesof working-class women within academia by engaging genealogy research to explore how onedevelops as a feminist within academia—which can also be a strange place for first generationacademics. As an undergraduate coming of age in the ‘post-feminist’ 1990s, access to the languageand politics of feminism was beyond my grasp. I came to feminism relatively late in my life andacademic career—it was in my doctoral research that I really became engaged academically and asa named political identity. I employ auto-ethnography in this paper and reflect on how our intimateothers are always implicated in our own stories. This allows me to highlight how inheritedexperiences, memories, and embodiments are key. Intergenerational learning can make us implicitlyfeminist before we learn the formal language of feminism. The stories I choose to tell and ‘memories’I invoke here are re-crafted and recalled in response to what frustrates me now. That young womenare still telling the same stories that I tell here.