Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process

Feminist Reflections
Herausgeber: Ryan-Flood, Roisin; Gill, Rosalind

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores secrecy and silence in research, situating the discussion within wider debates about gender, epistemology, methodology and ethics and drawing on the reflections of feminist scholars.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9780415452144
• ISBN-10: 0415452147
• Artikelnr.: 25848024

Autorenporträt

Róisín Ryan-Flood is a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Essex. Her research interests include gender, sexuality, kinship and migration. She is the author of Lesbian Motherhood: Gender, Families and Sexual Citizenship (2009). Her current research explores sexuality, citizenship and diaspora. Rosalind Gill is Professor of Subjectivity and Cultural Analysis in the Faculty of Social sciences, The Open University. She is author of Gender and the Media (2007) and is currently writing a book about mediated intimacy.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part 1: Interpreting and Theorising Silence 1. Choosing
Silence: Rethinking Voice, Agency and Women's Empowerment 2. Forms of
Knowing and Un-knowing: Secrets about Society, Sexuality and God in
Northern Kenya 3. Unknowable Secrets and Golden Silence: Reflexivity and
Research on Sex Tourism 4. The Desire to Talk and Sex/Gender Related
Silences in Interviews with Male Heterosexual Clients of Prostitutes 5.
Silencing Accounts of Silenced Sexualities Section 2: The Unspoken in the
Research Process 6. Not Telling it How it is: Secrets and Silences of a
Critical Feminist Researcher 7. Critiquing Thinness and Wanting to be Thin
8. Inside 'Doorwork': Gendering the Security Gaze 9. Silencing Differences:
The 'Unspoken' Dimensions of 'Speaking for Others' 10. Raising the Curtain
on Survey Work Section 3: Silence, Secrecy and Telling Research Stories
11. Avoiding the 'R-Word': Racism in Feminist Collectives 12. Suppressing
Intertextual Understandings: Negotiating Interviews and Analysis 13. Dirty
Work: Researching Women and Sexual Representation 14. Keeping Mum: Secrecy
and Silence in Research on Lesbian Parenthood 15. Silenced by Law: the
Cautionary Tale of Women on the Line Section 4: Affective Dilemmas 16.
Animating Hatreds: Research Encounters, Organisational Secrets, Emotional
Truths 17. Secrets, Silences and Toxic Shame in the Neoliberal University
18. Silence and Secrets: Confidence in Research 19. Shameful Silences:
Self-protective Secrets and Theoretical Omissions 20. Living in the Real
World? What Happens when the Media covers Femenist Research 21. The Place
of Secrets, Silences and Sexualities in the Research Process