Confessing Feminist Theory: What's “I” Got to Do with It?
- 1 January 1992
- journal article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Hypatia
- Vol. 7 (2) , 120-147
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.1992.tb00889.x
Abstract
Confessional modes of self-representation have become crucial in feminist epistemologies that broaden and contextualize the location and production of knowledge. In some versions of confessional feminism, the insertion of “I” is reflective, the product of an uncomplicated notion of experience that shuttles into academic discourse apersonal truth. In contrast to reflective intrusions of the first person, reflexive confessing is primarily a questioning mode that imposes self-vigilance on the process of self positioning.Keywords
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