Introduction Feminism today is a mix of researchers' epistemologies . In this web site, we attempt to share some of the epistemologies. Shulamit Reinharz in Feminist Methods in Social Research presents the feminist methodology in ten themes derived from a meta-analysis. Our group selected four themes that appear central to feminist thought and theory and that also parallel with studies from four feminist researchers we studied.
Feminist research aims to create social change .
At the heart of much feminist research is the goal, even the obligation, of taking action and bringing about change in the conditions of women. Feminist research strives to represent human diversity . Across the works of many researchers, feminism acknowledges the paradox that women are both alike and different among themselves and different from men. Feminism is a perspective, not a research method . At the most basic level, feminist research simply attempts to incorporate into social reality the female perspective.