Feminist methodology
Subtitle: challenges and choices
By: Caroline Ramazanoğlu with Janet Holland.
Contributors: Holland, Janet.
Publisher: Sage
Published: 2002
Place of publication: London; Thousand Oaks, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 195
Subjects: Feminism -- Research.; Feminism -- Methodology.
Description: "Who would be a feminist now? Contemporary 'political realism' suggests that the essentials of the battle have already been won, and the current generation of women entering University is used to seeing feminism presented as 'old fashioned', 'extreme' and 'unrealistic'. Challenging such assumptions, this important new book argues for the value of empirical investigations of gendered life, and brings together the theoretical, political and practical aspects of feminist methodology. Feminist Methodology: a- demonstrates how feminist approaches to methodology engage with debates in western philosophy to raise critical questions about knowledge production; b- shows that feminist methodology has a distinctive place in social research; c- guides the reader through the terrain of feminist methodology and clarifies how feminists can claim knowledge of gendered social existence; and d- connects abstract issues of theory with issues in fieldwork practice."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: I Introduction; title: Introduction; title: Three challenges to feminist methodology; title: What is gender?; title: What is feminism in the twenty-first century?; title: Are feminists women?; title: What is methodology in social research?; title: Is feminist methodology distinctively feminist?; title: The structure of the book; title: PART I FEMINISM'S ENLIGHTENMENT LEGACY AND ITS CONTRADICTIONS; title: 2 Reason, science and progress: feminism's Enlightenment; title: inheritance; title: Introduction; title: Enlightenment thought; title: Reason, science and progress: how Enlightenment thought has; title: shaped feminist approaches to methodology; title: Modem humanism; title: The long shadow of the Enlightenment: challenges and; title: contradictions at the roots of modem feminist methodology; title: Conclusion; title: 3 Can feminists tell the truth? Challenges of; title: scientific method; title: Introduction; title: Feminist research as a quest for valid knowledge of social; title: realities by a knowing subject; title: Feminist objections to scientific method in social research; title: Objectivity, subjectivity, relativism: competing paths to truth; title: Conclusion; title: 4 From truth/reality to knowledge/power: taking a feminist; title: standpoint; title: Introduction; title: The knowing feminist at the limits of modern methodology; title: A methodological continuum: slipping and sliding on; title: Haraway's greasy pole; title: What is a feminist standpoint?; title: Nancy Hartsock: achieving a feminist standpoint as a vantage; title: point on male supremacy; title: Dorothy Smith: taking women's standpoint; beginning in; title: experience; title: What problems remain?; title: Conclusion; title: PART II FREEDOM, FRAGMENTATION AND RESISTANCE; title: 5 Escape from epistemology? The impact of postmodern; title: thought on feminist methodology; title: Introduction; title: Postmodern thought; title: Postmodern freedoms: sweeping away the foundations of; title: feminist methodology; title: Thus far but no further? Feminist resistance to postmodern; title: thought; title: Conclusion; title: 6 Researching 'others': feminist methodology and the; title: politics of difference; title: Introduction; title: Confronting difference in feminist social research; title: Being different: the constitution of 'otherness'; title: Being different: experiencing and resisting 'otherness'; title: Complications of difference; title: The politics of representing 'others': the privileged researcher; title: The power of interpretation: data analysis; title: Reflexivity in the research process; title: Conclusion; title: 7 Knowledge, experience and reality: justifying feminist; title: connections; title: Introduction; title: The case against taking experience as a source of knowledge; title: A case for taking experience as a source of knowledge; title: The difficulties of connecting experience and material realities; title: Should feminists specify criteria of validity?; title: The idea of a feminist epistemic community; title: Conclusion; title: PART III MEETING CHALLENGES, MAKING CHOICES; title: 8 Choices and decisions: doing a feminist research project; title: Introduction; title: What makes social research feminist?; title: The research process; title: Situating your research question; title: Face to face with the research: data production; title: Face to face with the researched: putting reflexivity into practice; title: Face to face with the data: analysis and conclusions; title: Face to face with a blank sheet: writing up; title: Conclusion; title: 9 Conclusion; title: Glossary; title: References; title: Index.