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Feminist methodology : challenges and choices /
'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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. :
Sage,
2002.
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| Colección: | Online access: SAGE SAGE Research Methods Core.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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?
- 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
- 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
- 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?
- 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
- searching '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
- 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
- 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.