Press release from UNC Asheville:
Joey Sprague, feminist sociologist and standpoint theorist, visits UNC Asheville on the occasion of the release this year of the second edition of her influential book, Feminist Methodologies for Critical Researchers: Bridging Differences. Sprague, professor of sociology at the University of Kansas, will give a free public lecture on Thursday, Sept. 15 at 5:30 p.m., in the Laurel Forum, Karpen Hall, on the campus of UNC Asheville.
Sprague’s work seeks to understand how taken for granted conceptual frameworks, from common sense to professional scholarship, are socially shaped and distorted, particularly by inequalities of class, gender, and race. While she has analyzed a wide variety of discourses, from public debates over abortion to how disability professionals talk about self-determination, her major focus has been on the social construction of knowledge in the social sciences. Sprague’s work has been published in multiple peer-reviewed outlets, including American Sociological Review, Gender and Society, and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. She is a founding co-editor of The Gender Lens book series (Rowman & Littlefield) and she has recently completed a multi-year term as executive officer of Sociologists for Women in Society, an organization dedicated to the development and dissemination of feminist social science and the promotion of social justice.
Sprague’s visit is sponsored by UNC Asheville’s Department of Sociology & Anthropology, the Department of Economics, the Women, Gender & Sexualities Studies Program, the Humanities Program, the Honors Program, the Center for Teaching and Learning, the Carol G. Belk Distinguished Professor in Humanities, and the Philosophy Club. For more information, contact Karin Peterson, chair, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, kpeterso@unca.edu, 828-232-5021.
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