Pullen, Elaine Florence (1999) Feminism and sociology : processes of transformation. PhD thesis, University of Warwick.

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Abstract

This study seeks to explicate the processes through which feminist analyses and perspectives were during the early 1970s incorporated into undergraduate sociology degree programmes. The narrative it presents is based on data produced through semi-structured interviews with sixteen women sociologists whose political and professional biographies identify them more or less closely with these events, and on evidence obtained from a range of documentary and other secondary sources. I argue that feminism's curricular achievements may be understood as outcomes both of developments within the feminist public sphere and the institutionalised discipline of sociology and of struggles concerning the definition and structure of the 1970s sociological field. Only when attention is directed towards the social relations of academic production and the broader political, institutional and intellectual contexts in which these are located does the challenge of feminist sociology become fully apparent.

Item Type:	Thesis or Dissertation (PhD)
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HM Sociology L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2300 Higher Education
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	Feminism -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century, Sociology -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century, Women sociologists -- Great Britain -- Case studies
Date:	March 1999
Institution:	University of Warwick
Theses Department:	Department of Sociology
Thesis Type:	PhD
Publication Status:	Unpublished
Supervisor(s)/Advisor:	Lovell, Terry
Sponsors:	Economic and Social Research Council (Great Britain) (ESRC)
Extent:	vii, 345 leaves
Language:	eng
URI:	http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/id/eprint/4244

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