Critical Realism, Feminism, and Gender: A Reader

Michiel van Ingen is an Associate Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University and a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire, United Kingdom. Steph Grohmann is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Centre for Homeless and Inclusion Health at the University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Lena Gunnarsson is a Researcher and Teacher in Gender Studies at Örebro University and Lund University, Sweden.

• Making Waves, and Beyond Part I Philosophical Preliminaries: Critical Realism, Feminism, and Gender 1. Feminism, Realism, and Universalism 2. Post-structuralist and Constructivist Feminism 3. Sex and Gender: A Critical Realist Approach 4. A Defence of the Category ‘Women’ 5. Gender Theory Non-conforming: Critical Realist Feminism, Trans Politics, and Affordance Theory Part II Critical Realism and Intersectionality 6. Developing a Critical Realist Positional Approach to Intersectionality 7. Agency and Ontology within Intersectional Analysis: A Critical Realist Contribution 8. Why we keep Separating the ‘Inseparable’: Dialecticising Intersectionality Part III Methodology and Methods: Critical Realism and Empirical Research 9. The Reality of Gender (Ideology): Using Abduction and Retroduction in Applied Critical Realist Research 10. After Constructivism: Rethinking Feminist Security Studies through Interdisciplinary Research 11. Integrating Critical Realist and Feminist Methodologies: Ethical and Analytical Dilemmas 12. Critical Realist Discourse Analysis, Motherhood, and Gender: A Systematic Methodological Approach to Analysis Further Reading

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