As feminist scholarship has developed, it has become increasingly evident that the practice of feminist research is interdisciplinary. Yet there are very few books that address the methodological and theoretical issues raised in doing feminist research from an interdisciplinary standpoint. Feminist Perspectives on Social Research addresses this need by focusing on the theory and research methods that feminist scholars use to study women and gender from the humanities and social and behavioural science perspectives.
Contents:
Part 1: Methods, Methodology, Epistemology
Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber, Patricia Leavy, and Michelle L. Yaiser: Feminist Approaches to Research as a Process: Reconceptualizing Epistemology, Methodology and Method
Dorothy Smith: Women's Perspectives as Radical Critique of Sociology
Sandra Harding: Rethinking Standpoint Epistemology: What Is Strong Objectivity?
Kum-Kum Bhavnani: Tracing the Contours: Feminist Research and Feminist Objectivity
Joey Sprague and Diane Kobrynowicz: A Feminist Epistemology
Part 2: Strategies on Issues of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality
Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber and Michelle L. Yaiser: Difference Matters: Studying Across Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality
Lynn Weber: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality
Diane Reay: Rethinking Social Class: Qualitative Perspectives on Class and Gender
Shirley Hill and Joey Sprague: Parenting in Black and White Families: The Interaction of Gender with Race and Class
Sandra Harding: Can Men Be Subjects of Feminist Thought?
Kathleen Weston: Fieldwork in Lesbian and Gay Communities
Part 3: Applications and Methods
Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber, Denise Leckenby, and Michelle L. Yaiser: How Feminists Practice Social Research
Marjorie DeVault: Talking and Listening from Women's Standpoint: Feminist Strategies for Interviewing and Analysis
Kristin Anderson and Debra Umberson: Gendering Violence: Masculinity and Power in Men's Accounts of Domestic Violence
Sue Wilkinson: Focus Groups: A Feminist Method
Jocelyn Hollander: Vulnerability and Dangerousness: The Construction of Gender through Conversation about Violence
Janet Saltzman Chafetz: Some Thoughts by an 'Unrepentant Positivist' Who Considers Herself a Feminist Nonetheless
Maxine Thompson and Verna Keith: The Blacker the Berry: Gender, Skin Tone, Self-Esteem, and Self-Efficacy
Laura Madson: Inferences Regarding the Personality Traits and Sexual Orientaton of Physically Androgynous People
Nancy Naples: The Outsider Phenomenon
Mimi Schippers: The Social Organization of Sexuality and Gender in Alternative Hard Rock: An Analysis of Intersectionality
Susan Geiger: What's So Feminist About Women's Oral History?
Antoinette Errante: But Sometimes You're Not Part of the Story: Oral Histories and Ways of Remembering and Telling
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