Gayle Letherby

Feminist Research in Theory and Practice

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Charts the debates concerned with epistemological, political and practical issues involved in doing feminist research. This book explores the relation between politics and practice in terms of research and knowledge production. It is intended to be a resource for researchers or individuals interested in women's studies and feminism.

Produktdetails

• Feminist Controversies
• Verlag: Open University Press
• New
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: Februar 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 308g
• ISBN-13: 9780335200283
• ISBN-10: 0335200281
• Artikelnr.: 21032866

Autorenporträt

Gayle Letherby is Associate Head of Subject (Social Work, Health and Social Sciences) and Deputy Director of the Centre for Social Justice in the School of Health and Social Sciences at Coventry University. She has published widely in the areas of methodology and epistemology; reproduction, kinship and identity; working and learning in higher education; and criminology.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Educating Rita revisited: knowledge and language in the 'male' academy
United we stand? The feminist reconstruction of knowledge
Doing it for ourselves: feminist research as feminist theory in action
Quoting and counting: the qualitative/quantitative divide
Whose life is it anyway? Issues of power, empowerment, ethics and
responsibility
Texts of many lives: the implications for feminist research
Close encounters: presentations and audiences
Reflections
References
Index.