Gender, Feminism and Critical Realism

Lena Gunnarsson is a researcher and teacher in Gender Studies at Lund University, Sweden. She is also affiliated with Örebro University, Sweden. Her research interests include feminist theory, social theory, love studies and sexual consent research. Much of her work is dedicated to bridging the gulf between feminist theory and realism. Angela Martinez Dy is Lecturer in Entrepreneurship at the Glendonbrook Institute for Enterprise Development, Loughborough University London, UK. Her research interests include digital and marginal enterprise activity, intersectionality, cyberfeminism and critical realist philosophy. Michiel van Ingen teaches at the London School of Economics and Political Science, United Kingdom. His research interests include the philosophy and methodology of science, (critical) social theory, feminism and gender-studies, and the study of violence/war.

• 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