At the Center: Feminism, Social Science and Knowledge: An Overview of This Volume

Abstract

Purpose

This introduction provides an overview of the themes and chapters of this volume.

Research limitations/implications

The chapters illustrate current approaches to theories, research methods, pedagogy, and praxis in gender studies showing both continuity and change.

Practical/social implications

Newer approaches, gender-centered, intersectional, and global offer a critique of older ways of gathering and understanding data, ways that respond to and are impacted by social change.

Originality/value

The chapter and the volume are intended to encourage further advances in gender research.

Citation

Segal, M.T. and Demos, V. (2015), "At the Center: Feminism, Social Science and Knowledge: An Overview of This Volume", At the Center: Feminism, Social Science and Knowledge (Advances in Gender Research, Vol. 20), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. xvii-xxv. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1529-212620150000020026