Just methods : an interdisciplinary feminist reader / edited by Alison M. Jaggar.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Jaggar, Alison M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women's studies--Methodology.

Women's studies.

Women--Research--Methodology.

Women.

Research--Methodology.

Research.

Research--Moral and ethical aspects.

Feminist theory.

Physical Description:

xi, 516 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Boulder, CO : Paradigm Publishers, [2008]

Summary:

Features: Covers central topics comprehensively. Provides clearly written and substantive introductions with conceptual tools for critically analyzing methodological issues. Emphasizes the inseparability of sex/gender constructions from other structures of inequality, such as race, class, and nation. Links ethical and political values with epistemic questions of credibility and reliability. Surveys "feminists rethinking" issues such as empiricism, postmodernism, and democratization. Selects key writings by preeminent authors including Lourdes Beneria, Patricia Hill Collins, Stephen J. Gould, Sandra Harding, Naheed Islam, Patricia Maguire, Vandana Shiva, Abigail J. Stewart, Barrie Thorne, Maxine Baca Zinn, among many more-45 authors in all.

Contents:

Introduction: The Project of Feminist Methodology vii

Part I Feminist Critiques of Methodology

1 The Humanities 3

/ Joan Kelly-Gadol "The Social Relation of the Sexes: Methodological Implications of Women's History" 6

/ Janice Moulton "A Paradigm of Philosophy: The Adversary Method" 13

/ Paula Gunn Allen "Kochinnenako in Academe: Three Approaches to Interpreting a Keres Indian Tale" 21

2 The Social Sciences 34

/ Dorothy E. Smith "Women's Perspective as a Radical Critique of Sociology" 39

/ Toby Epstein Jayaratne, Abigail J. Stewart "Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in the Social Sciences: Current Feminist Issues and Practical Strategies" 44

/ Linda Tuhiwai Smith "Research through Imperial Eyes" 58

3 Economics 68

/ Diana Strassmann "Not a Free Market: The Rhetoric of Disciplinary Authority in Economics" 72

/ Lourdes Beneria "Paid and Unpaid Labor: Meanings and Debates" 80

/ Marilyn Waring "Counting for Something! Recognizing Women's Contribution to the Global Economy through Alternative Accounting Systems" 97

4 Human Biology 105

/ Jennifer Terry "Lesbians under the Medical Gaze: Scientists Search for Remarkable Differences" 108

/ Stephen J Gould "Critique of The Bell Curve" 118

/ Elisabeth A. Lloyd "Bias in the Science of Evolution" 130

5 The Health Sciences 147

/ Geri L. Dickson "Metaphots of Menopause: The Metalanguage of Menopause Research" 151

/ Karen Messing "Don't Use a Wrench to Peel Potatoes: Biological Science Constructed on Male Model Systems Is a Risk to Women Workers' Health" 163

/ W. A. Rogers "Evidence-Based Medicine and Justice: A Framework for Looking at the Impact of EBM upon Vulnerable or Disadvantaged Groups" 182

6 Feminist Studies 191

/ Maxine Baca Zinn, Lynn Weber Cannon, Elizabeth Higginbotham, Bonnie Thornton Dill "The Costs of Exclusionary Practices in Women's Studies" 198

/ Bette S. Tallen "How Inclusive Is Feminist Political Theory? Questions for Lesbians" 205

/ Uma Narayan "Dislocating Cultures: Identities, Traditions, and Third World Feminism'" 213

Part II Feminists Rethinking Methodology

7 Feminist Naturalism: Do Women Have Distinctive Ways of Knowing? 229

/ Mary Field Belenky, Blythe McVicker Clinchy, Nancy Rule Goldberger, Jill Mattuck Tarule "Procedural Knowledge: Separate and Connected Knowing" 235

/ Patricia Hill Collins "Black Feminist Epistemology" 247

/ Nancy Tuana "Revaluing Science: Starting from the Practices of Women" 257

8 Feminist Empiricism: Experience and Interpretation 268

/ Joan W. Scott "'Experience'" 272

/ Renee T. White "Talking about Sex and HIV: Conceptualizing a New Sociology of Experience" 282

/ Lorraine Code "Incredulity, Experientialism, and the Politics of Knowledge" 290

9 Feminist Standpoint Theory: Social Location and Epistemic Privilege 303

/ Patricia Hill Collins "Learning from the Outsider Within: The Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought" 308

/ Maria Mies "The Need for a New Vision: The Subsistence Perspective" 320

/ Sandra Harding "Borderlands Epistemologies" 331

10 Feminist Postmodernism: Knowledges as Partial, Contingent, and Politically Informed 342

/ Donna Haraway "Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective" 346

/ Nancy Fraser, Linda J. Nicholson "Social Criticism without Philosophy: An Encounter between Feminism and Postmodernism" 352

/ Anne Opie "Qualitative Research, Appropriation of the "Other" and Empowerment 362

11 Objectivity and Validation 374

/ Alison M. Jaggar "Love and Knowledge: Emotion in Feminist Epistemology" 378

/ Helen Longino "Values and Objectivity" 391

/ Naomi Scheman "Epistemology Resuscitated: Objectivity as Trustworthiness" 401

12 Democratizing Research 414

/ Patricia Maguire "Feminist Participatory Research" 417

/ Vandana Shiva "Democratizing Biology: Reinventing Biology from a Feminist, Ecological, and Third World Perspective" 433

/ Jan Bootinand for the Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women "Feminist Participatory Action Research in the Mekong Region" 445

13 Feminist Ethics in Research 457

/ Barrie Thorne "'You Still Takin' Notes?' Fieldwork and Problems of Informed Consent" 460

/ Naheed Islam "Research as an Act of Betrayal: Researching Race in an Asian Community in Los Angeles" 471

/ Linda Alcoff "The Problem of Speaking for Others" 484.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781594512049

1594512043

9781594512032

1594512035

OCLC:

123485068