arbiter
JournalsPricingAccount

On Power and Measurement Systems: Feminist Standpoint Empiricism and the Sexual Experiences Survey

Kai Milanovich

Philosophy of the Social Sciences2026https://doi.org/10.1177/00483931261418169article
ABDC B
Weight
0.50

What the paper says

This article examines the development of Mary Koss’s influential Sexual Experiences Survey and defends her then-controversial interpretive choice to endorse a broad-scope definition of rape. Koss’s choice was informed by an empirical recognition of how unjust power dynamics could confound measurement strategies. By adopting a feminist standpoint, Koss and her colleagues recognized how many measurement procedures implicitly disempowered respondents’ capacity to express inquiry-relevant data. Ultimately, the iterative development of a valid and reliable measurement system is compatible with, and quite comparable to, the feminist project of identifying how gendered relations of power enable the persistence and concealment of sexual violence.

Open paper page →

Cite this paper

https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/00483931261418169

Or copy a formatted citation

@article{kai2026,
  title        = {{On Power and Measurement Systems: Feminist Standpoint Empiricism and the Sexual Experiences Survey}},
  author       = {Kai Milanovich},
  journal      = {Philosophy of the Social Sciences},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1177/00483931261418169},
}

Paste directly into BibTeX, Zotero, or your reference manager.

Flag this paper

On Power and Measurement Systems: Feminist Standpoint Empiricism and the Sexual Experiences Survey

Flags are reviewed by the Arbiter methodology team within 5 business days.

Evidence weight

0.50

Balanced mode · F 0.40 / M 0.15 / V 0.05 / R 0.40

F · citation impact0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20
M · momentum0.50 × 0.15 = 0.07
V · venue signal0.50 × 0.05 = 0.03
R · text relevance †0.50 × 0.4 = 0.20

† Text relevance is estimated at 0.50 on the detail page — for your query’s actual relevance score, open this paper from a search result.