The subject of much of our work this semester will be the researcher studying women. Most of the stimulus readings are based on completed research projects rather than purely theoretical writing about research.
Research looks very different once one has done it compared with when one is just talking about it.
In these studies, the subjects of research have literally had an opportunity to talk back to the researchers during the course of research. The point is not that you should use clinical, ethnographic, or interview evidence in you research. Rather, this course will emphasize the more complex issues of theory and practice of research, emphasizing questions of reflexivity, multiple consciousness, creativity, intersubjectivity, and ethics and responsibility in research. Once we discuss research in which researchers have had to face the people they are interpreting, we will think about the implications of these models of research for work in which researchers have the luxury of not having to think about what their subjects think of what the researcher is saying about the subject. You may submit this electronically.