Feminist research methodology : making meanings of meaning-making / Maithree Wickramasinghe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wickramasinghe, Maithree, author.

Series:

Routledge research on gender in Asia series ; 2.

Routledge research on gender in Asia series ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women's studies--Research--Sri Lanka.

Women's studies--Sri Lanka--Methodology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (230 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book focuses on feminist research methodology, exploring and analysing its constituting methods, theory, ontology, epistemology, ethics and politics, and research issues relating to women, gender and feminism in Sri Lanka. The book examines ways of meaning-making for the political, ideological and ethical purposes of promoting individual and social change, and constructs an example of feminist research praxis. Using this South Asian country as a case study, the author looks at the means by which researchers in this field inhabit, engage with and represent the multiple realities

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables and diagrams; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Making meanings; Part I Methodology matters; 1 The local context: Archaeology of women's research activism; 2 A paradigm: Women - a paradigm in global knowledge production; Part II Aspects of feminist research methodology; 3 Subjectivity: Reflecting on the self as / in making meaning; 4 An ontology: Research realities in meaning-making; 5 An epistemology: Making meanings of being / doing gender; 6 A method: Literature reviewing as making meaning

7 Theory: Making and unmaking meaning in theory8 Ethics / politics: Feminist ethics / politics in meaning-making; Conclusions: Towards a feminist research methodological matrix - making meanings of meaning-making; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [186]-207) and index.

ISBN:

1-135-25957-7

1-135-25958-5

1-282-37726-4

9786612377266

0-203-86732-7

OCLC:

654781200