Book Review: Data Analysis with SPSS

other principles” (p. 10). Although I have just stated that I believe it is useful for a textbook to be inviting to both inductive and deductive thinkers, an inductive approach can make for an unfortunate circularity and insularity about the feminisms and feminist methodologies to be taken up. Of particular note is the absence of Third World feminist perspectives, which incorporate a sharper analysis of capitalism and colonial legacies than any example Kleinman offers. Even the “Everything Is More Than One Thing” chapter on intersecting inequalities, which diligently attends to how race, class, and sexuality interact with gender, almost entirely overlooks the location of fieldwork sites in the world order or in historically-informed moments. Although most of my research is interviewbased, what sometimes troubled me about the examples and principles offered is the extent to which they reduce the social world to what happens when people talk. At the same time as Feminist Fieldwork Analysis includes a chapter entitled “Talk is Action,” Kleinman is reluctant to discuss feminist participatory action research, for reasons that the introductory chapter leaves unsatisfyingly murky. Second, feminists with a strong political economy bent would probably prefer that Kleinman include something explicitly materialist among her principles. I am thinking that “Follow the Money,” a theme that does arise in several dispersed examples and that recurs in Kleinman’s intricate analysis of Renewal, would make a great organizing principle for a chapter in the next edition. Many feminists might further wonder at the general disembodiment of the people depicted in this text. When the researched subjects in Feminist Fieldwork Analysis are grounded in their physicality, it is so often bad news—of overeaters for whom food is a cheap addiction, waitresses with double standards about sexual harassment, of gay men who, when having sex without condoms, do so because of a “wounded sense of masculinity” (p. 53). Kleinman instructs fieldworkers to attend carefully to “the oppressive consequences of desire for the disadvantaged group” (p. 80). Perhaps my tendency to misread the end-of-chapter subtitle as “Questions to Ask in the Field or in the Dark” is telling here. I am intrigued by what Squire (1995) terms an “extravagant” feminism that is disruptive, decorative, and disturbing, whereas Feminist Fieldwork Analysis resolutely embraces what Squire would call “pragmatic” feminism. The most startling disembodiments come in those end-ofchapter sections, which rarely direct students to inquire about the researcher’s role or standpoint as an embodied presence moving through a fieldwork site’s social, political, and ethical relations; instead, the questions would be equally suited to researchers leaving concealed microphones on site. This is a significant oversight for a discussion of feminist methodology (cf Shulamit Reinharz’s [1992] chapter on feminist ethnography in the classic Feminist Methods in Social Research). In sum, the feminist methodology that Kleinman presents in this dynamic and eminentlyreadable text seems, at times, naïve in its inductive development and often overly cautious in its politic.