Critical, Feminist & Discursive Methods

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Abstractions about critical and feminist inquiry, discourse analysis, gendered classification, social stigma, historical sex models, and contested interpretive objects.

7 abstractions in this family — domain-specific abstractions that sit near one another in structural-signature space (k-means over structural-signature embeddings). Each is shown with its short description.

• Critical discourse analysis — An interdisciplinary approach examining how language and other semiotic practices reproduce, legitimize, contest, or transform social power, inequality, and ideology.
• Feminist method — A family of research practices that makes gendered power, situated knowledge, researcher position, participant voice, and emancipatory consequences explicit in producing and evaluating knowledge.
• Feminist post-structuralist discourse analysis — A discourse-analytic method examining how interacting speakers are multiply positioned by competing gendered discourses, power relations and shifting subjectivities.
• Femmephobia — The social devaluation, regulation or denigration of femininity across people of any gender or sex.
• One-sex and two-sex theories — A contested historiographical framework contrasting accounts of female anatomy as an inverted version of male anatomy with accounts of two fundamentally distinct sexed bodies.
• Socratic problem — The historical problem of reconstructing Socrates from divergent and partly incompatible ancient sources.
• Uberfic — A fan-fiction genre that relocates recognizable character patterns into another era, setting or reality through counterpart characters.