Indisciplining sociologies, disciplining feminisms

Abstract

The Introduction to this volume draws the map of the relationship between feminism and sociology, arguing that each has to indiscipline and discipline the other on different registers. Contextualised within the pedagogic need to ground interdisciplinarity, the article argues that feminism and sociology must be brought together to alter each other in a transformational manner. Addressed to sociologists, it attempts to graft feminism and sociology on the axes of language, location and lineage. It suggests that the disciplinary crisis faced by sociology may be reduced with the adoption of a reflexivity that is at the intersection of sociology and feminism. It also suggests that the practices of a feminist pedagogy offer possibilities for revitalising the discipline of sociology. It provides summaries of the articles in the volume that lead us to reflexivity and pluralism.