Introduction to Marilyn Waring’s Who’s Counting?

Feminist Theory Informs our understandings of how language shapes our world views – “Other”-Woman is defined in opposition to man Simone De Beauvoir, The Second Sex – In a transnational context, 2/3 world peoples are defined in opposition to “First World” or “Developed World” peoples Sexual division of labor settled into its current division – “Development” of industrialization – This development is transferred to former colonies Situated / Embodied knowledge is an alternate way of understanding how knowledge is developed, which knowledge is valued, and who gets a say in both – Women’s perspectives can be centered Research Methods feminists advocate for include – Multi-disciplinary, multi-method, combination of qualitative and quantitative data

“Change around the edges” Documentation of women’s work in agrarian production research asks: – What work do women do? – What resources, in what quantities, do they have to work with? – What are they responsible for? – What are their practices? – What costs do they bear? – What benefits do they achieve? Fortmann L, Ballard, H, and Sperling, L. (2008). Change around the edges. In L. Schiebinger (Ed.) Gendered innovations in science and engineering. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

Marilyn Waring New Zealand, youngest person elected to Parliament in early 1970s Feminist economist Who's Counting? – 20:20 Budget questions/Time use Surveys – 29:40 – 43:16 World economies - 52:38 – 52:38 Making a Killing – 61.26

Participatory research Donna Haraway, Feminist science theorist – “Objectivity is not the god-trick of seeing everything from nowhere but rather that objectivity is necessarily embodied and, therefore, all knowledges are situated and partial” Participatory biophysical research – Is inherently collaborative – It is intentionally NOT exploitative of research partners – Knowingly embedded in a social and political context

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