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Seeing our seeing: Gouldner’s reflexive sociology from a feminist phenomenological perspective

  • Retrospective Reviews: The Coming Crisis In Western Sociology By Alvin W. Gouldner
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  1. the Women Studies Program, Regis College, Weston, Massachusetts

    Louise Levesque-Lopman (professor of sociology and director)

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Her research and writing examine women’s subjective experience. Her most recent publication on this topic isClaiming Reality: Phenomenology and Women’s Experience (Rowman and Littlefield, 1988).

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Levesque-Lopman, L. Seeing our seeing: Gouldner’s reflexive sociology from a feminist phenomenological perspective. Am Soc 20, 362–372 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02691822

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