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

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Ramazanoglu, Caroline, 1939-
• TeilnehmendeR: Holland, Janet.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Physical Description: vii, 195 p.

Table of 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
• Introduction
• 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
• Introduction
• 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
• Conclusion
• 4 From truth/reality to knowledge/power: taking a feminist
• standpoint
• Introduction
• 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?
• Conclusion
• PART II FREEDOM, FRAGMENTATION AND RESISTANCE
• 5 Escape from epistemology? The impact of postmodern
• thought on feminist methodology
• Introduction
• Postmodern thought
• Postmodern freedoms: sweeping away the foundations of
• feminist methodology
• Thus far but no further? Feminist resistance to postmodern
• thought
• Conclusion
• 6 Researching 'others': feminist methodology and the
• politics of difference
• Introduction
• 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
• Conclusion
• 7 Knowledge, experience and reality: justifying feminist
• connections
• Introduction
• 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
• Conclusion
• PART III MEETING CHALLENGES, MAKING CHOICES
• 8 Choices and decisions: doing a feminist research project
• Introduction
• 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
• Conclusion
• 9 Conclusion
• Glossary
• References
• Index.