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Feminist Dilemmas in Qualitative Research (eBook, PDF)

Public Knowledge and Private Lives

Redaktion: Ribbens, Jane Catherine; Edwards, Rosalind

Beschreibung

How can researchers produce work with relevance to theoretical and formal traditions and requirements of public academic knowledge while still remaining faithful to the experiences and accounts of research participants based in private settings? Feminist Dilemmas in Qualitative Research explores this key dilemma and examines the interplay between theory, epistemology and the detailed practice of research. It does this across the whole research process: access, data collection and analysis and writing up research. It goes on to consider ways of achieving high standards of reflexivity and openness in the strategic choices made during research, examining these issues for specific projects in an open and accessible style.

Particular themes examined are: the research dilemmas that occur from feminist perspectives in relation to researching private and personal social worlds; the position of the researcher as situated between public knowledge and private experience; and the dilemmas raised for researchers seeking to contribute to academic discourse while remaing close to their knowledge forms.

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Autor

Jane Ribbens is Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Oxford Brookes University. Rosalind Edwards is Reader in Social Policy at South Bank University. CONTRIBUTORS OUTSIDE WESTERN HEMISPHERE Pam Alldred University of East London and University of North London Linda Bell Maxine Birch Open University Melanie Mauthner Institute of Education University of London Natasha Mauthner University of Edinburgh Tina Miller Janet Parr University of Sheffield Miri Song University of Kent Kay Standing John Moore′s University

Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781446275771
• Artikelnr.: 38405422

Rezensionen

`This is an excellent book for both undergraduate and graduate students. It contains some useful tips on technique and some striking quotations. There is also a comprehensive bibliography of feminist writing on a wide range of theoretical and practical topics. The care and thoughtfulness of this collection bring together in a stimulating way the philosopher's questions about representation and the empirical researcher's questions about evidence. Feminist Dilemmas in Qualitative Research is a useful and timely book' - Women's Philosophy Review `It is indeed refreshing to find serious, dedicated feminist psychologists who write so expressively about their desires, commitments, limitations and difficulties as researchers, and how they choose to address them.... [This book] offers us a rare oppotunity to thrash through these dilemmas and perhaps gain sufficient practice such that when we are again alone in the thorny thickets of research we shall be better prepared.' - Feminism and Psychology