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Inte05


The uncertain “woman” in ethnology and folklore [Working Group “Feminist Approaches to Ethnology and Folklore”] 
Convenors:
JoAnn Conrad (Diablo Valley College. Univ. of Iceland)
Dagrún Jónsdóttir (University of Iceland)
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Format:
Panel+Roundtable
Stream:
Intersectionalities
:
B2.33
Sessions:
Thursday 8 June, -, -, -
Time zone: Europe/Prague

Short Abstract:

How does gender ideology affect our practice? Our panel addresses the historical, epistemological, and institutional absence, erasure, and/or diminishment of the group constructed within and then marginalized by the hierarchicalizing dyad – Male/Female. In doing so we counter the privilege of partial (male) perspective by proposing theoretically and methodologically inclusive practices, which challenge the continued use of our conventional tools in the production of knowledge.

Long Abstract:

The gendered social reality that adheres in the hierarchicalizing dyad Male/Female, constitutes, reflects, and reinforces fundamental power relations in which the position of “non-male” is a state of existential uncertainty. This working group, in our inaugural panel seeks to interrogate the fundamental ways in which such a gender ideology operates in practice and theory in our fields. In the paper sessions we first address the historical, epistemological, and institutional absence, erasure, and/or diminishment of the group constructed within and then marginalized by the dyad – historically, as foundational members of our fields; epistemologically, in the continued use of our tools in the production of knowledge; institutionally, in the continuation of unequal power relations; and in our very subject matter. Thus, this panel will explore the (re)insertion of the names and work of those absented from the history of the fields and how reinsertion (and exclusion) affects practice. We also seek to counter the privilege of partial (male) perspective by first highlighting its pervasive and yet unremarkable presence, and then by articulating how Feminist Perspectives on Ethnology and Folklore can be incorporated as practice and theory rather than sidelined. In our roundtable we seek a robust discussion on the relationship of gender to the field and ask: Where have we been, where do we want to be, and where do we want to go?

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Thursday 8 June, 2023, -
Session 2 Thursday 8 June, 2023, -