意識與行動－台灣婦女／性別研究建制化歷程之探討

Acting Otherwise: The Institutionalization of Women Gender Studies in Taiwan Universities

陳佩英(Pei-Ying Chen)

《通識教育季刊》 11卷1&2期 (2004/06) Pp. 39-72

https://doi.org/10.6745/JGE.200406_11(1_2).0002

摘要

這篇論文主要是想透過女性主義學者認同行動的顯影，追溯並詮釋婦女及性別研究在學院內「建制化」的過程。我採用了微觀的歷史社會學研究方法，嘗試連結「身分認同」、「知識行動」與「結構變遷」三者之間的關係。藉此辯證關係去探究女性主義學者透過了哪些方法，型塑身份認同、形成網絡組織、以及採取了哪些相應於歷史條的策略行動，來提昇性別平等意識，並促成婦女與性別研究在學院內的開展。相關的研究問題有：(1)女性主義學者的意識覺醒與身份認同的建構歷程；(2)意識提昇和身份認同如何影響到這些學者的教學、研究和社會行動？個別與認同建構的特殊經驗，如何在不同的歷史條件中，開展了個別的和集體的社會行動？哪些因素將個體的特殊經驗與集體的社會行動交會和接合在一起？(3)個別與集體行動的開展過程帶給組織哪些變化？這種開展對個體具有什麼樣的社會意義，而這些變化又對性別研究建制化產生了什麼樣的影響？

關鍵字

婦女研究 ； 性別研究 ； 婦女運動 ； 女性主義 ； 身分認同 ； 策略行動

並列摘要

This study is an analysis of the role of intellectual activism in the emergence and institutionalization of women's/gender studies in Taiwan, within the context of the broader feminist project that has shaped this nascent academic field worldwide. The key motivation for doing this research was the crucial need to understand the interplay between feminist identity and action, and between action and structure. The primary issue of the study concerns the strategies of action that have been used by feminist scholars to attain the institutionalization of women's/gender studies in Taiwan's universities.
I employ a microfoundational approach to explore the interplay of identity, action and structure, and to scrutinize how, and by what means, feminist scholars have created networks, formed identities, strategized action, and transmitted as well as produced feminist perspectives and knowledge. The form, scope, and degree of the institutionalization of women's/gender studies is the result of the multifaceted efforts of these people whom I call pathfinders. The emergence and growth of women's/gender studies denotes a movement involving scholars who identify with a dynamic, socially grounded feminism, and construct specific strategies of action to pursue women's/gender studies while being theoretically concerned with the interplay among identity, action and structure.

並列關鍵字

women's studies ； gender studies ； women's movement ； feminism ； identity ； agency ； strategies of action

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