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Tables of Contents for Feminist Research in Theory and Practice
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
xi
Introduction
1
1
Initial thoughts
2
2
Definitions and meanings
4
2
Feminism and feminist research
4
1
Methods, methodology and epistemology
5
1
The self and other in feminist research
6
3
Issues of `I' and other
6
1
The `self' as researcher
7
2
Myself and feminist research
9
6
Introducing myself
9
1
Developing academic interests
10
5
This book
15
2
Relationship to past work
15
1
Outline of the book
16
1
Notes
17
1
Suggested further reading
17
2
Educating Rita revisited: knowledge and language in the `male' academy
19
22
Introduction
19
1
The things men know?
20
10
The construction of woman as `other'
20
4
Tensions between authorized and experiential knowledge
24
4
Further tales of exclusion
28
2
Language and male authority
30
5
Man-made language?
30
3
It's only words
33
2
Storming the doors of academia
35
3
End points
38
2
Note
40
1
Suggested further reading
40
1
United we stand? The feminist reconstruction of knowledge
41
20
Introduction
41
2
Stand by your woman
43
6
Feminist empiricism
43
1
Feminist standpoint epistemology
44
5
I am what I am, or am I?
49
6
The importance of `difference'
49
2
Postmodernism or poststucturalism?
51
4
Finding a position
55
4
Focusing on the material
55
1
The value of difference
56
1
Feminist standpoints or feminist epistemologies?
57
2
End points
59
1
Notes
59
1
Suggested further reading
60
1
Doing it for ourselves: feminist research as theory in action
61
19
Introduction
61
2
A critique of malestream theory
63
9
The quest for `science'
63
3
Generating theory from research
66
1
Feminist critiques and alternatives
67
3
The problem of objectivity and bias
70
2
A feminized approach
72
7
`Defining' feminist research
72
1
Bringing women in?
73
2
Reflexivity and representation
75
4
End points
79
1
Suggested further reading
79
1
Quoting and counting: the qualitative/quantitative divide
80
19
Introduction
80
1
A short history of the interview
81
3
`Tools' of research
81
2
Developing a participatory model
83
1
The qualitative/quantitative debate in feminism
84
4
Establishing the parameters of the debate
84
1
Methods and critiques
85
1
The `gendered paradigm' divide
86
1
Research-specific methods
87
1
Doing feminist research
88
9
Talking, talking, talking
88
2
Writing, reading and looking
90
3
Counting and ordering
93
1
Looking and living
94
2
Triangulation and innovation
96
1
End points
97
1
Suggested further reading
98
1
Whose life is it anyway? Issues of power, empowerment, ethics and responsibility
99
23
Introduction
99
1
Getting started
100
7
Project parameters and research populations
100
2
Access
102
1
Study group formation
103
4
Feminist research in action
107
9
Beginnings
107
2
Identity, impression management and emotion work
109
5
Power, empowerment and `emancipatory' research
114
2
Leavings and endings
116
4
Leaving the field
116
1
Analysing the data
117
3
End points
120
1
Note
120
1
Suggested further reading
121
1
Texts of many lives: the implications for feminist research
122
23
Introduction
122
1
Roles and relationships
123
8
Expert or kindred spirit?
124
2
Friends and family
126
1
`Counselling' and research
127
1
Just good friends?
127
2
Friendly strangers
129
1
Further personal reflections
129
2
Us and them
131
9
Knotty entanglements
131
3
Speaking for `others'
134
1
Feminists and non-feminists
135
2
Men
137
2
Researchers' identities
139
1
Auto/biography in research
140
3
Motivations and coming out
140
1
Auto/biography in research and research writing
141
2
End points
143
1
Suggested further reading
144
1
Close encounters: presentations and audiences
145
14
Introduction
145
1
Presenting our work
146
6
Spreading the word
146
1
Publish or perish
147
1
Academic gatekeeping
148
3
Feminism in fashion!
151
1
Responses and receptions
152
5
Academic and other audiences
152
2
Read all about it: feminism in the media
154
3
End points
157
1
Suggested further reading
158
1
Reflections
159
3
References
162
19
Index
181