Feminist Ethnography

ETHNOGRAPHY that has been informed by the principles of FEMINIST RESEARCH. As such, feminist ethnography documents women’s lives and activities, conducts research and analysis from women’s perspectives, and appreciates women’s positions and perspectives contextually. There has been some debate about the prospects for feminist ethnography on the grounds that it is difficult to conduct truly according to feminist principles, because it is difficult to conduct in a totally nonexploitative way. Against such a viewpoint, feminist researchers argue that injecting reciprocity into the interactions and transactions between researchers and participants can help to offset an exploitative relationship between researchers and the women they study.