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SAGE Publications Inc Handbook Of Feminist Research Theory And Praxis by Sharlene Hesse Biber
The topic feminist research has too often been neglected in standard research methods books. _x000D__x000D__x000D__x000D_The Handbook of Feminist Research represents the establishment of a new tradition or paradigm in viewing how the research process is implemented. Feminist researchers bring unique epistemological and methodological perspectives to the research process. Feminists' approach to methodology allows for `new' types of questions about women's lives and those of `other/ed' marginalized groups to be addressed within their respective fields of research._x000D__x000D__x000D__x000D__x000D__x000D_This Handbook stresses the interconnections between epistemology, methodology and methods.They are not de-linked from each other but work together in dynamic ways to produce new knowledge and this openness itself is also characteristic of how feminist researchers approach their work. Feminists engage synergistically with all three aspects of the research process - epistemology, methodology and method. Through a synergistic connection between these elements of research: epistemology; methodology; and method, we find that feminist research often shapes new research endeavors that are greater than `the sum of their parts'. In other words, while traditional research employs these components of research, the synergistic engagement of these components in feminist research questions the status quo, aiming to raise our consciousness about how we do research. Looking at the selections provided in this Handbook we are able to look at feminist research, its implementation of synergistic use of epistemology, methodology and method, and the resulting qualities of feminist research in practice._x000D_ _x000D_
Acknowledgments_x000D_
1. Feminist Research: Exploring the Interconnections of Epistemology, Methodology, and Method - Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber_x000D_
PART I. Feminist Perspectives on Knowledge Building_x000D_
2. Feminist Empiricism - Catherine Hundleby_x000D_
3. Feminist Standpoints - Sandra Harding_x000D_
4. Postmodern, Poststructural, and Critical Theories - Susanne Gannon and Bronwyn Davies_x000D_
5. The Politics of Border Crossings: Black, Postcolonial, and Transnational Feminist Perspectives - Hyun Sook Kim_x000D_
6. Feminist Interdisciplinary Approaches to Knowledge Building - Sally L. Kitch_x000D_
PART II. Feminist Research Praxis_x000D_
7. From Theory to Method and Back Again: The Synergistic Praxis of Theory and Method - Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber and Deborah Piatelli_x000D_
8. Toward Understandings of Feminist Ethnography - Wanda S. Pillow and Cris Mayo_x000D_
9. Feminist Interviewing: Experience, Talk, and Knowledge - Marjorie L. DeVault and Glenda Gross_x000D_
10. Using Survey Research as a Quantitative Method for Feminist Social Change - Kathi Miner-Rubino, Toby Epstein Jayaratne, and Julie Konik_x000D_
11. The Link Between Theory and Methods: Feminist Experimental Research - Sue V. Rosser_x000D_
12. Reading Between the Lines: Feminist Content Analysis Into the Second Millennium - Shulamit Reinharz and Rachel Kulick_x000D_
13. Feminist Evaluation Research - Sharon Brisolara and Denise Seigart_x000D_
14. Participatory and Action Research and Feminisms: Toward Transformative Praxis - M. Brinton Lykes and Erzulie Coquillon_x000D_
15. Narratives and Numbers: Feminist Multiple Methods Research - Abigail J. Stewart and Elizabeth R. Cole_x000D_
16. Feminisms, Grounded Theory, and Situational Analysis - Adele E. Clarke_x000D_
17. Emergent Methods in Feminist Research - Pamela Moss_x000D_
18. Feminist Perspectives on Social Movement Research - Sarah Maddison_x000D_
19. Institutional Ethnography: From a Sociology for Women to a Sociology for People - Dorothy E. Smith_x000D_
PART III. Feminist Perspectives on the Research Process: Issues and Insights_x000D_
20. Core Feminist Insights and Strategies on Authority, Representations, Truths, Reflexivity, and Ethics Across the Research Process - Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber and Abigail Brooks_x000D_
21. Authority and Representation in Feminist Research - Judith Roof_x000D_
22. What?s Good Writing in Feminist Research? What Can Feminist Researchers Learn About Good Writing? - Kathy Charmaz_x000D_
23. Reading for Another: A Method for Addressing Some Feminist Research Dilemmas - Laurel Richardson_x000D_
24. Truth and Truths in Feminist Knowledge Production - Mary Hawkesworth_x000D_
25. Holistic Reflexivity: The Feminist Practice of Reflexivity - Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber and Deborah Piatelli_x000D_
26. Feminist Research Ethics - Judith Preissle_x000D_
PART IV. Commentaries on Future Directions in Feminist Theory, Research, and Pedagogy_x000D_
27. Dialoguing About Future Directions in Feminist Theory, Research, and Pedagogy - Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber_x000D_
28. Reason, Truth, and Experience: Tyrannies or Liberation? - Helen E. Longino_x000D_
29. Critical Perspectives on Feminist Epistemology - Noretta Koertge_x000D_
30. The Feminism Question in Science: What Does It Mean to ?Do Social Science as a Feminist?? - Alison Wylie_x000D_
31. Standpoint Epistemology and Beyond - Nancy A. Naples_x000D_
32. Commentary: Using Feminist Fractured Foundationalism in Researching Children in the Concentration Camps of the South African War (1899?1902) - Liz Stanley and Sue Wise_x000D_
33. Future Directions in Difference Research: Recognising and Responding to Difference - Diane Reay_x000D_
34. Feminist Designs for Difference - Michelle Fine_x000D_
35. Decolonizing Approaches to Feminist Research: The Case of Feminist Ethnography - Katherine Borland_x000D_
36. Future Directions of Feminist Research: Intersectionality - Bonnie Thornton Dill, Amy E. McLaughlin, and Angel David Nieves_x000D_
37. Interconnections and Configurations: Toward a Global Feminist Ethnography - Kum-Kum Bhavnani_x000D_
38. Feminizing Global Research/Globalizing Feminist Research: Methods and Practice Under Globalization - Jennifer Bickham Mendez and Diane L. Wolf_x000D_
39. A Global Feminist Perspective on Research - Maria Mies_x000D_
40. Future Directions of Feminist Research: New Directions in Social Policy?The Case of Women?s Health - Lynn Weber_x000D_
41. From Course to Discourse: Mainstreaming Feminist Methodology - Debra Renee Kaufman_x000D_
42. Feminist Pedagogy Reconsidered - Daphne Patai_x000D_
43. A Passion for Knowledge: The Teaching of Feminist Methodology - Judith A. Cook and Mary Margaret Fonow_x000D_
Author Index_x000D_
Subject Index_x000D_
About the Editor_x000D_
About the Contributors_x000D_