Re-turns and dis/continuities of feminist thought in childhood research: indebtedness and entanglements

Osgood, Jayne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9424-8602 and Robinson, Kerry H. (2019) Re-turns and dis/continuities of feminist thought in childhood research: indebtedness and entanglements. In: Feminists Researching Gendered Childhoods: Generative Entanglements. Osgood, Jayne ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9424-8602 and Robinson, Kerry H., eds. Feminist Thought in Childhood Research Series . Bloomsbury Academic, London, pp. 17-40. ISBN 9781474285780, e-ISBN 9781474285810, e-ISBN 9781474285803, pbk-ISBN 9781350178984. [Book Section] (doi:10.5040/9781474285810.ch-002)

Abstract

This chapter aims to map some examples of key feminist philosophies, theories and research that have shaped understandings of childhood and gender in significant ways in the recent past. It attends to important shifts over time, but it does not argue for chronology or linearity; rather the aim is to illuminate how a rich tapestry of feminist thought has been activated and practised through research to generate important ruptures to established ways of thinking about children and gender. By reviewing what has come before, we identify how previous feminist scholarship leaves traces and, in many senses, shapes the exciting research that is being undertaken in the field of childhood studies by feminist researchers currently. We want to celebrate the important contributions that feminist philosophers and scholars have made to the field and to explore the possibilities that are opened for feminist new materialists to work [...]

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