2008/12/01 by Viviane Namaste · 5 citations
Psychology · Social Sciences · #African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues #Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies #LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
paper · doi:10.1111/j.1527-2001.2009.01043.x
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For nearly twenty years, Anglo-American feminist theory has posed its own epistemological questions by looking at the lives and bodies of transsexuals and transvestites. This paper examines the impact of such scholarship on improving the everyday lives of the people central to such feminist argumentation. Drawing on indigenous scholarship and activisms, I conclude with a consideration of some central principles necessary to engage in feminist research and theory—to involve marginal people in the production of knowledge and to transform the knowledge-production process itself.