63.070 - Bad Girl Theory and Practice: Qualitative Research in Post-Truth Times

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session will bring together “on the edge” work in qualitative inquiry from several feminist scholars. Across ethnography, biography, autobiography, psychoanalysis and speculative philosophy our work is influenced by earlier feminist scholarship that opened a door in terms of possibilities for women as scholars who not only included women but shifted the terms of inclusion. Long interested in various shifts in cultural theory, from structuralism to poststructuralism, postcolonialism, psychoanalysis, queer theory and intersectionality to post-critical and the new materialism, our great interest, always, is what difference such theories might mean in addressing the question of how knowledge remains possible given the end of the value free notion of the construction of “truth.”

Sub Unit

• SIG-Qualitative Research

Chair

• Patti A. Lather, The Ohio State University

Papers

• Bad Girls, Divas, and Feminist Killjoys - Lisa Weems, Miami University

• Bad Biographer: Hagiographical Refusals and Feminist Reconfigurings - Janet L. Miller, Teachers College, Columbia University

• How Bad Can a Good Girl Be? - Patti A. Lather, The Ohio State University

• Witches and Wild Women: Bad Girls of the Anthropocene - Maggie Maclure, Manchester Metropolitan University

• A Psychoanalytic Approach to Good and Bad Object Relations in Qualitative Research - deborah britzman, york university