Feminist methodology : challenges and choices / Caroline Ramazanoglu with Janet Holland.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ramazanoglu, Caroline, 1939-

Contributor:

Holland, Janet.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Feminism--Research.

Feminism.

Feminism--Methodology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 195 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Thousand Oaks, [Calif.] : SAGE, 2002.

London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

'Feminist Methodology' is an accessible demonstration of how feminist approaches to methodology engage with debate in Western philosophy to raise critical questions about knowledge production.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: I Introduction

Introduction

Three challenges to feminist methodology

What is gender?

What is feminism in the twenty-first century?

Are feminists women?

What is methodology in social research?

Is feminist methodology distinctively feminist?

The structure of the book

PART I FEMINISM'S ENLIGHTENMENT LEGACY AND ITS CONTRADICTIONS

2 Reason, science and progress: feminism's Enlightenment

inheritance

Enlightenment thought

Reason, science and progress: how Enlightenment thought has

shaped feminist approaches to methodology

Modem humanism

The long shadow of the Enlightenment: challenges and

contradictions at the roots of modem feminist methodology

Conclusion

3 Can feminists tell the truth? Challenges of

scientific method

Feminist research as a quest for valid knowledge of social

realities by a knowing subject

Feminist objections to scientific method in social research

Objectivity, subjectivity, relativism: competing paths to truth

4 From truth/reality to knowledge/power: taking a feminist

standpoint

The knowing feminist at the limits of modern methodology

A methodological continuum: slipping and sliding on

Haraway's greasy pole

What is a feminist standpoint?

Nancy Hartsock: achieving a feminist standpoint as a vantage

point on male supremacy

Dorothy Smith: taking women's standpoint; beginning in

experience

What problems remain?

PART II FREEDOM, FRAGMENTATION AND RESISTANCE

5 Escape from epistemology? The impact of postmodern

thought on feminist methodology

Postmodern thought

Postmodern freedoms: sweeping away the foundations of

feminist methodology

Thus far but no further? Feminist resistance to postmodern

thought

6 Researching 'others': feminist methodology and the

politics of difference

Confronting difference in feminist social research

Being different: the constitution of 'otherness'

Being different: experiencing and resisting 'otherness'

Complications of difference

The politics of representing 'others': the privileged researcher

The power of interpretation: data analysis

Reflexivity in the research process

7 Knowledge, experience and reality: justifying feminist

connections

The case against taking experience as a source of knowledge

A case for taking experience as a source of knowledge

The difficulties of connecting experience and material realities

Should feminists specify criteria of validity?

The idea of a feminist epistemic community

PART III MEETING CHALLENGES, MAKING CHOICES

8 Choices and decisions: doing a feminist research project

What makes social research feminist?

The research process

Situating your research question

Face to face with the research: data production

Face to face with the researched: putting reflexivity into practice

Face to face with the data: analysis and conclusions

Face to face with a blank sheet: writing up

9 Conclusion

Glossary

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781412933254

9781849209144

OCLC:

124066945