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Introduction to Marilyn Waring’s Who’s Counting?

Introduction to Marilyn Waring’s Who’s Counting?. Feminist Theory. Informs our understandings of how language shapes our world views “Other”-Woman is defined in opposition to man Simone De Beauvoir, The Second Sex

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Introduction to Marilyn Waring’s Who’s Counting?

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  1. Introduction to Marilyn Waring’sWho’s Counting?

  2. Feminist Theory • Informs our understandings of how language shapes our world views • “Other”-Woman is defined in opposition to man • Simone De Beauvoir, The Second Sex • In a transnational context, 2/3 world peoples are defined in opposition to “First World” or “Developed World” peoples • Sexual division of labor settled into its current division • “Development” of industrialization • This development is transferred to former colonies • Situated / Embodied knowledge is an alternate way of understanding how knowledge is developed, which knowledge is valued, and who gets a say in both • Women’s perspectives can be centered • Research Methods feminists advocate for include • Multi-disciplinary, multi-method, combination of qualitative and quantitative data

  3. “Change around the edges” • Documentation of women’s work in agrarian production research asks: • What work do women do? • What resources, in what quantities, do they have to work with? • What are they responsible for? • What are their practices? • What costs do they bear? • What benefits do they achieve? • Fortmann L, Ballard, H, and Sperling, L. (2008). Change around the edges. In L. Schiebinger (Ed.) Gendered innovations in science and engineering. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

  4. Marilyn Waring • New Zealand, youngest person elected to Parliament in early 1970s • Feminist economist • Who's Counting? • 20:20 Budget questions/Time use Surveys – 29:40 • 43:16 World economies - 52:38 • 52:38 Making a Killing – 61.26

  5. Participatory research • Donna Haraway, Feminist science theorist • “Objectivity is not the god-trick of seeing everything from nowhere but rather that objectivity is necessarily embodied and, therefore, all knowledges are situated and partial” • Participatory biophysical research • Is inherently collaborative • It is intentionally NOT exploitative of research partners • Knowingly embedded in a social and political context

  6. Consider the following: • IRB (Internal Review Boards) • OSU's IRB • Citi Program Test

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