Feminist methodology challenges and choices /
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London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. :
Sage,
2002.
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: I Introduction
- Introduction
- Three challenges to feminist methodology
- What is gender?
- What is feminism in the twenty-first century?
- Are feminists women?
- What is methodology in social research?
- Is feminist methodology distinctively feminist?
- The structure of the book
- PART I FEMINISM'S ENLIGHTENMENT LEGACY AND ITS CONTRADICTIONS
- 2 Reason, science and progress: feminism's Enlightenment
- inheritance
- Introduction
- Enlightenment thought
- Reason, science and progress: how Enlightenment thought has
- shaped feminist approaches to methodology
- Modem humanism
- The long shadow of the Enlightenment: challenges and
- contradictions at the roots of modem feminist methodology
- Conclusion
- 3 Can feminists tell the truth? Challenges of
- scientific method
- Introduction
- Feminist research as a quest for valid knowledge of social
- realities by a knowing subject
- Feminist objections to scientific method in social research
- Objectivity, subjectivity, relativism: competing paths to truth
- Conclusion
- 4 From truth/reality to knowledge/power: taking a feminist
- standpoint
- Introduction
- The knowing feminist at the limits of modern methodology
- A methodological continuum: slipping and sliding on
- Haraway's greasy pole
- What is a feminist standpoint?
- Nancy Hartsock: achieving a feminist standpoint as a vantage
- point on male supremacy
- Dorothy Smith: taking women's standpoint; beginning in
- experience
- What problems remain?
- Conclusion
- PART II FREEDOM, FRAGMENTATION AND RESISTANCE
- 5 Escape from epistemology? The impact of postmodern
- thought on feminist methodology
- Introduction
- Postmodern thought
- Postmodern freedoms: sweeping away the foundations of
- feminist methodology
- Thus far but no further? Feminist resistance to postmodern
- thought
- Conclusion
- 6 Researching 'others': feminist methodology and the
- politics of difference
- Introduction
- Confronting difference in feminist social research
- Being different: the constitution of 'otherness'
- Being different: experiencing and resisting 'otherness'
- Complications of difference
- The politics of representing 'others': the privileged researcher
- The power of interpretation: data analysis
- Reflexivity in the research process
- Conclusion
- 7 Knowledge, experience and reality: justifying feminist
- connections
- Introduction
- The case against taking experience as a source of knowledge
- A case for taking experience as a source of knowledge
- The difficulties of connecting experience and material realities
- Should feminists specify criteria of validity?
- The idea of a feminist epistemic community
- Conclusion
- PART III MEETING CHALLENGES, MAKING CHOICES
- 8 Choices and decisions: doing a feminist research project
- Introduction
- What makes social research feminist?
- The research process
- Situating your research question
- Face to face with the research: data production
- Face to face with the researched: putting reflexivity into practice
- Face to face with the data: analysis and conclusions
- Face to face with a blank sheet: writing up
- Conclusion
- 9 Conclusion
- Glossary
- References
- Index.