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The feminist and the emperor's new clothes: Feminist deconstruction as a critical methodology for library and information studies

Hope A. Olson
- 01 Jan 1997 - 
- Vol. 19, Iss: 2, pp 181-198
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In this paper, a feminist deconstruction reveals that the boundary between uniformity and diversity of language is artificial or constructed and that any such boundary is exclusionary, and provides an example of such a deconstruction as a methodology.
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This article is published in Library & Information Science Research.The article was published on 1997-01-01. It has received 22 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Feminist philosophy & Deconstruction.

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Analyzing Qualitative Interview Data: The Discourse Analytic Method

TL;DR: The authors presented discourse analysis as a method of analyzing qualitative interview data and found that participants' interpretations are much more context dependent and variable than normally recognized, and that this has important implications for the use of interview data.
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An Illustrated Introduction to the Infosphere

TL;DR: This introduction to Luciano Floridi’s philosophy of information suggests that LIS may just be as important to PI as PI is to LIS in terms of deepening the authors' mutual understanding of information ontologies, the dynamics of informational domains, and the variety of evolving relationships among information organisms and information objects.
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Knowledge organization in research: A conceptual model for organizing data

TL;DR: In this article, the knowledge organization (KO) model is reinterpreted for transferability to quantitative, qualitative, and textual research, and the model's applicability is illustrated with examples from the authors' research.
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Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: The Reinvention of Nature

Donna Haraway
TL;DR: Simians, Cyborgs and Women as mentioned in this paper is a collection of ten essays written between 1978 and 1989 by Haraway that analyzes accounts, narratives, and stories of the creation of nature, living organisms, and cyborgs.
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Situated Knowledges : The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective

Donna Haraway
- 01 Oct 1988 - 
TL;DR: The authors argue that the alternative to relativism is partial, locatable, critical knowledges sustaining the possibility of webs of connections called solidarity in politics and shared conversations in epistemology.
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Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses

TL;DR: In this paper, the Third World Woman is presented as a singular monolithic subject in some recent (western) feminist texts, focusing on a certain mode of appropriation and codification of "scholarship" and knowledge about women in the third world by particular analytic categories employed in writings on the subject which take as their primary point of reference feminist interests as they have been articulated in the US and western Europe.
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Feminist practice and poststructuralist theory

TL;DR: The Second Edition of as discussed by the authors is a collection of essays about poststructuralism and postmodernism in the context of women's critical practice, including the following: 1. Feminism and Theory. 2. Discourse, Power and Resistance. 3. Language and Subjectivity. 4. Feminist Critical Practice.
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Getting Smart: Feminist Research and Pedagogy with/in the Postmodern

Geert ten Dam, +1 more
- 01 Nov 1994 - 
TL;DR: Biehl as discussed by the authors uses Murray Bookchin's Dialectical Naturalism as an alternative model for defining nature and argues that this theoretical concept allows for the possibility of what all eco-theorists appear to wanta different and less damaging relationship between humanity and the natural world.
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