Introduction to the special issue

Abstract

This paper introduces the Feminist Research Collective, the WomenWeLove project and this special issue.

Keywords:

• Feminism
• love
• feminist methodology
• storyworlding

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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Notes

1 The phrase “speaking truth to power” was first used in a Quaker pamphlet “Speak truth to power: A Quaker search for an alternative to violence” published in 1955 published by the American Friends Service Committee.

2 For example, Malinowski, who studied the Trobriand Islanders from 1913 to 1918, advocated participant observation and the adoption of “the native point of view,” but at the same time saw himself -rather than the islanders—as the expert on their lives. He said, “The integration of all the details observed, the achievement of a sociological synthesis of all the various, relevant symptoms, is the task of the Ethnographer… the Ethnographer has to construct the picture of the big institution.” (Malinowski, 2016, pp. 83–83). His work and influence contrasts with the early twentieth century Boasian school, who were more conscious of, and more wary of, ethnocentrism.

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Notes on contributors

The Feminist Research Collective is a community of women scholars who collaboratively engage in research, teaching service, and activism. Current FRC members include Suparna Bose, Sylvia Washington, Rossmary Marquez Lameda, Darcy Furlong, Pengfei Zhao, Barbara Dennis, Dajanae Palmer, Samantha Silberstein, Alycia Elfreich, Pooja Saxena, and Lucinda Carspecken. We can be reached [email protected] and FeministReseachCollective.org