Feminist Methodology :Challenges and Choices ( 1 )

Publication subTitle :Challenges and Choices

Publication series :1

Author: Ramazanoglu   Caroline;Holland   Janet  

Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd‎

Publication year: 2002

E-ISBN: 9781412933254

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780761951223

Subject: C913.68 Womens Issues;D44 妇女运动与组织

Keyword: 工人、农民、青年、妇女运动与组织

Language: ENG

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`An accessible, clearly explained review of difficult concepts within this arena as well as relevant debates. Its strengths are in outlining possible considerations that need to be taken into account when making methodological choices. It also clearly explains how these choices impact knowledge production. This book would undoubtedly be of considerable use to anyone seeking to understand and get to grips with feminist methodological issues' - Feminism and Psychology

Who would be a feminist now? Contemporary 'political realism' suggests that the essentials of the battle have already been won, and the current generation of women entering University is used to seeing feminism presented as 'old fashioned', 'extreme' and 'unrealistic'.

Challenging such assumptions, this important new book argues for the value of empirical investigations of gendered life, and brings together the theoretical, political and practical aspects of feminist methodology.

Feminist Methodology

- demonstrates how feminist approaches to methodology engage with debates in western philosophy to raise critical questions about knowledge production

- shows that feminist methodology has a distinctive place in social research

- guides the reader through the terrain of feminist methodology and clarifies how feminists can claim knowledge of gendered social existence

- connects abstract issues of theory with issues in field

Chapter

Part I: Feminism's enlightenment legacy and it's contradictions

Chapter 2 - Reason, science and progress: Feminism's Enlightenment Inheritance

Chapter 3 - Can feminists tell the truth? Challenges of scientific method

Chapter 4 - From truth/reality to knowledge/power

Part II: Freedom, fragmentation and resistance

Chapter 5 - Escape from epistemology? The Impact of postmodern thought on feminist methodology

Chapter 6 - Researching 'others': Feminist methodology and the politics of difference

Chapter 7 - Knowledge, experience and reality: Justifying feminist connections

Part III: Meeting challenges, making choices

Chapter 8 - Choices and decisions: Doing a feminist research project

Chapter 9 - Conclusion

Glossary

References

Index

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