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In an essay written in 1990, Michele Barrett talked of a “turn towards culture” in feminist theory and gender studies (Barrett 1990: 22-4).1 She identified two related shifts, both of which, I suspect, will be familiar to all of us from our different national experiences. The first was a shift in the objects of feminist analysis, away from the kinds of issues associated with the social sciences (patterns of labour market discrimination, for example, or the social construction of masculinity and femininity through the school curriculum) and towards the arts, humanities, and philosophy. The second was a shift in the forms of analysis, so that even those still working within a recognizably social science context became increasingly preoccupied with issues of subjectivity, discourse, or the representations of the self.
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Phillips, A. (2002). Which Equalities Matter? Or Even: Does Equality Matter?. In: Fleßner, H., Potts, L. (eds) Societies in Transition — Challenges to Women’s and Gender Studies. Studien interdisziplinäre Geschlechterforschung, vol 4. VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-663-11375-1_20
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