Gender and qualitative methods / Helmi Järviluoma, Pirkko Moisala and Anni Vilkko.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Järviluoma, Helmi.

Contributor:

Vilkko, Anni.

Moisala, Pirkko.

Series:

Introducing qualitative methods

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sex role--Research.

Sex role.

Qualitative research--Sex differences.

Qualitative research.

Sex differences.

Physical Description:

viii, 138 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; Thousand Oaks : SAGE, 2003.

Summary:

Gender and Qualitative Methods outlines the practical and philosophical issues of gender in qualitative research. Taking a social constructionist approach to gender, the authors emphasize that the task of the researcher is to investigate how gender//s is//are defined, negotiated and performed by people themselves within specific situations and locations.

Each chapter begins with an introduction to a specific method and//or research subject and then goes on to discuss gender as an analytical category in relation to it. Areas covered include: field work; life story; membership categorisation analysis; and analysis of gender in sound and vision.

Written in a clear and accessible way, each chapter contains practical exercises that will teach the student methods to observe and analyze the effects of gender in various texts and contexts. The book is also packed with examples taken from women and men's studies as well as from feminist and other gender studies.

Contents:

1 Performing and Negotiating Gender 1

2 Gender and Fieldwork 27

3 Gender and Life Stories 46

4 Gender in Membership Categorization Analysis Helmi Jarviluoma and Irene Rolvainen 69

5 Not only Vision-Analysing Sound and Music from the Perspective of Gender 84

6 Research Reporting and Gender 107.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [118]-133) and index.

ISBN:

076196584X

0761965858

OCLC:

51438765