Gender Methodologies. Domination and Oppression in a Critical Realism Perspective
by Anna Loretoni
pp. 44-59 Issue 16 (8,2) – July-December 2021 ISSN (online): 2539/2239 ISSN (print): 2389-8232 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14718/SoftPower.2021.8.1.4
Abstract
Starting from a methodology defined as ‘critical realism’, the essay aims at analyzing the concepts of power and domination, in relation to the specific condition of women, also by including the perspective of intersectionality. Along this path, the essay underlines the ambivalent aspects of the relation between women and the different forms of domination, by introducing the category of symbolic and epistemic violence, the correlation between onthology and epistemology. In the last part, the essay questions the diversity among women in the global dimension, trough the significant contribution of no western feminism.