Abstract

Narrative-works are the lifeblood of femme scholarship. Through this medium, femmes write themselves into existence. In this article, I begin with my own story of femme and examine the backdrop of patriarchal femininity that positions pieces of me as being at odds, disjointed, and something needing to be reconciled. Indeed, many current frameworks and dominant framings for understanding femininity create disjunctures needing to be reconciled and fail to include diverse feminine perspectives in ways that constitute epistemic and hermeneutical injustices. Using my own femme becoming as a guide, I offer this process of femme reconcilement as a framework that can be applied to dislodge feminine normativity and challenge the assumptions researchers make about femininity within their work. In this article I highlight the importance of femme epistemologies; the importance of valuing feminine knowledge, and how the absented femme highlights the continued god-trick of objectivity. Here, I discuss how femme narratives can be used to bolster femme as theory and critical analytic. This situated knowledge holds the possibility to inform novel methodological frameworks and to substantially shift the way researchers think about femininity and feminine people.

摘要

叙事作品是女性奖学金的命脉。通过这种媒介，女性得以自我生存。在本文中，我从我自己的女性故事开始，并考察了重男轻女的背景，这些背景使我的身体处于矛盾，脱节和需要调和的位置。的确，当前用于理解女性气质的许多框架和主导框架造成了需要加以调和的分歧，并且未能以构成认识论和解释学上的不公正的方式包括多样的女性主义观点。以我自己的女性形象为指导，我提供了女性形象调和的过程，作为可用于消除女性规范性和挑战研究人员在其工作中对女性化假设的框架。在本文中，我强调了女性认识论的重要性。重视女性知识的重要性，以及缺席的女性如何突出客观性的持续性。在这里，我将讨论如何利用女性的叙事来支持女性作为理论和批判性分析。这些常识可以为新的方法论框架提供信息，并大大改变研究人员对女性气质和女性气质的思考方式。