Summary
Overview
Key Readings
For the past thirty years there have been vigorous debates about the roles played by gender, sexuality, and sexual orientation in research. This collection brings together the debates together, set them into their historical and theoretical context, and deal with the major criticisms and refutations. A particular strength of this collection is makes available key sources otherwise scattered and hard to obtain.
Volume I discusses three sub-themes, the context in which gender became a matter of concern for researchers, the context in which feminist methods were developed, and the (re)discovery of the methodological work of well-known women such as Jane Addams and Florence Nightingale.; Volume II looks at research that has been conducted with explicit awareness of gender.; Volume III focuses on the pioneering work of ...
Editors' Introduction
Rationale and Scope
The papers in these four volumes represent the best and most important scholarly work in social science that challenges the universality of its traditional methods. The first volume contains a selection of papers typifying the work done by contemporary feminists to reinstate and reinterpret the work of the feminist pioneers of social science, followed by statements setting out the need for feminist methods. Volume 2 contains classic and lesser-known discussions of how research on gender should be done. Volume 3 focuses on feminist methods and the challenge posed to them by the rise of postmodernism. Papers by key writers who have advanced the new men's studies and queer theory and methods make up the first half of Volume 4. ...
Table of Contents
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Volume 1: Contexts and Theory
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Historical Contexts
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1. Elsie Clews Parsons in the Southwest
Louis Hieb
1993
Hidden Scholars
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2. Mourning Dove's Canadian Recovery Years, 1917–1919
Alanna Brown
1990
Brown Canadian Literature
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3. Ella C. Deloria: The Emic Voice
Bea Medicine
1980
Melus
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4. Finding a Sociological Voice: The Work of Mirra Komarovsky
Shulamit Reinharz
1989
Sociological Inquiry
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5. Multiple Mediations in Zora Neale Hurston's Mules and Men
Graciela Hernández
1993
Critique of Anthropology
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6. Ruth Landes in Brazil: Writing, Race, and Gender in 1930s American Anthropology
Sally Cole
1995
City of Women
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7. Significant Sister: Autonomy and Obligation in Audrey Richards' Early Fieldwork
Jo Gladstone
1986
American Ethnologist
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8. “She was Very Cambridge”: Camilla Wedgwood and the History of Women in British Social Anthropology
Nancy Lutkehaus
1986
American Ethologist
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9. Beatrice Webb's Romance with Ethnography
Ann Ardis
1990
Women's Studies
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Theoretical Contexts
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10. An Analysis of Ideological Structures and how Women are Excluded: Considerations for Academic Women
Dorothy Smith
1975
Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology
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11. Veil of Illusion: A Critique of the Concept of Equality in Western Feminist Thought
Cynthia Nelson | Virginia Olesen
1977
Catalyst
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12. Knowers, Knowing, Known: Feminist Theory and Claims of Truth
Mary Hawkesworth
1989
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
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13. Feminist Theory and Sociology: Underutilized Contributions for Mainstream Theory
Janet Chafetz
1997
Chafetz Annual Review of Sociology
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14. The Impact of Feminist Thought on Sociology
Paula England
1999
Contemporary Sociology
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15. Feminism and Epistemology: What Kind of Successor Science?
John Holmwood
1995
Sociology
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Saska Roseneil
1995
British Journal of Sociology
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17. An Awkward Relationship: The Case of Feminism and Anthropology
Marilyn Strathern
1987
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
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18. Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective
Donna Haraway
1988
Feminist Studies
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19. The Problem of Bias in Androcentric and Feminist Anthropology
Nancy Scheper-Hughes
1983
Women's Studies
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Volume 2: Gender Roles in Research
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Women Researching Women
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20. ‘It's Great to have Someone to Talk to’: The Ethics and Politics of Interviewing Women
Janet Finch
1984
Social Researching
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21. Interviewing Women: A Phenomenological Approach to Feminist Communication Research
Kristin Langellier | Deanna Hall
1989
Doing Research on Women's Communication
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22. Interviewing Women: A Contradiction in Terms
Ann Oakley
1981
Doing Feminist Research
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23. When Gender is Not Enough: Women Interviewing Women
Catherine Riessman
1987
Riessman Gender & Society
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24. Gender and Age in Fieldwork and Fieldwork Education: No Good Thing is Done by Any Man Alone
Rosalie Wax
1979
Social Problems
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25. Can there be a Feminist Ethnography?
Judith Stacey
1988
Women's Studies International Forum
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Donna Luff
1999
Sociology
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D. Millen
1997
Sociological Research Online
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Women Researching Men
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28. Gender and Method in Folklore Fieldwork
Miriam Camitta
1990
Southern Folklore Quarterly
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29. Not ‘One of the Boys’: Women Researching the Police
Rebecca Horn
1997
Journal of Gender Studies
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30. The Development of Rapport through the Negotiation of Gender in Field Work among Police
Jennifer Hunt
1984
Human Organization
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31. Emotional Labour and Qualitative Research: How I Learned Not to Laugh or Cry in the Field
Karen Ramsay
1996
Methodological Imaginations
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32. (IN) SECURE TIMES: Constructing White Working-Class Masculinities in the Late 20th Century
Michelle Fine | Lois Weis | Judi Addelston | Julia Marusza
1997
Gender & Society
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Men Researching Women
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33. Women and Class Analysis: A Reply to John Goldthorpe
Michelle Stanworth
1984
Sociology
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34. Do her Answers Fit his Questions? Women and the Survey Method
Hilary Graham
1983
The Public and the Private
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35. Bringing the Men Back in: Sex Differentiation and the Devaluation of Women's Work
Barbara Reskin
1988
Gender & Society
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36. Sex Bias in Research Design
Kathleen Grady
1981
Psychology of Women Quarterly
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Men Researching Men
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37. Cool Guys, Swots and Wimps: The Interplay of Masculinity and Education
R. Connell
1989
Oxford Review of Education
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38. Structural Aporia & White Masculinities: White Men Respond to the White Male Privilege Critique
Steven Farough
2003
Race, Gender & Class
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39. ‘A Man in the Making’: Sexual Masculinities within Changing Training Cultures
Chris Haywood | Máirtín Mac an Ghaill
1997
The Sociological Review
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A. Skelton
1993
Gender and Education
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Volume 3: Feminist Methods
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Feminist Methods and Postmodernism
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41. Feminist Research, Feminist Consciousness and Experiences of Sexism
Liz Stanley | Sue Wise
1979
Women's Studies International Quarterly
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42. Hand, Brain, and Heart: A Feminist Epistemology for the Natural Sciences
Hilary Rose
1983
Journal of Women in Culture and Society
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43. Feminist Methodology – Fact or Fiction?
Sue Clegg
1975
Quality and Quantity
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44. The Value of Quantitative Methodology for Feminist Research
Toby Jayaratne
1983
Theories of Women's Studies
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45. Methods, Practice and Epistemology: The Debate about Feminism and Research
Mary Maynard
1995
Researching Women's Lives
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46. The New Feminist Scholarship: Some Precursors and Polemics
Mirra Komarovsky
1988
Journal of Marriage and the Family
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47. Is There an Association between Gender and Methods in Sociological Research?
Linda Grant | Kathryn Ward | Xue Rong
1987
American Sociological Review
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48. Locked in Uneasy Sisterhood: Reflections on Feminist Methodology and Research Relations
Leslie Bloom
1997
Bloom Anthropology & Education Quarterly
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Janet Billson
1991
Billson Women's Studies International Forum
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50. Roundtable Discussion: On Feminist Methodology
Karen Brown
1985
Brown Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion
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Judith Cook | Mary Fonow
1986
Fonow Sociological Inquiry
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52. Beginning where we are: Feminist Methodology in Oral History
Kathryn Anderson | Susan Armitage | Dana Jack | Judith Wittner
1987
Oral History Review
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53. Quality and Quantity: Reconstructing Feminist Methodology
Joey Sprague | Mary Zimmerman
1989
The American Sociologist
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54. Talking and Listening from Women's Standpoint: Feminist Strategies for Interviewing and Analysis
MarJorie Devault
1990
Social Problems
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55. “Claims and Disclaimers: Knowledge, Reflexivity and Representation in Feminist Research”
Gayle Letherby
2002
Sociological Research Online
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56. The Unhappy Relationship of Feminism and Postmodernism in Anthropology
Deborah Gordon
1993
Anthropological Quarterly
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57. Science, Gender, and Women's Liberation: An Argument against Postmodernism
Ann Oakley
1998
Women's Studies International Forum
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58. Feminism, Epistemology and Postmodernism: Reflections on Current Ambivalence
Gregor McLennan
1995
Sociology
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59. Confessions of a Ragpicker
Sara Delamont
2000
Confessions of a Ragpicker
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60. Feminism, Sociology of Scientific Knowledge and Postmodernism: Politics, Theory and Me
Vicky Singleton
1996
Social Studies of Science
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61. Drawing the Line at Angels: Working the Ruins of Feminist Ethnography
Patti Lather
1997
Qualitative Studies in Education
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62. Doing Feminist Educational Theory: A Post-Modernist Perspective
Sue Middleton
1995
Gender and Education
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63. Postmodernism and Gender Relations in Feminist Theory
Jane Flax
1987
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
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64. Kinship between Judith Butler and Anthropology? a Review Essay
Thomas Strong
2002
Ethnos
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Volume 4: Men's Studies, Queer Theory, Polyvocality
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Men and Masculinities
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65. Men, Masculinity and the Process of Sociological Enquiry
David Morgan
1981
Doing Feminist Research
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66. The New Men's Studies: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution?
Joyce Canaan | Christine Griffin
1990
Men, Masculinity and Social Theory
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67. What is Problematic About Masculinities?
Kenneth Clatterbaugh
1998
Men and Masculinities
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68. Toward a New Sociology of Masculinity
Tim Carrigan | Bob Connell | John Lee
1985
Theory and Society
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69. Theorizing Men and Men's Theorizing: Varieties of Discursive Practices in Men's Theorizing of Men
Jeff Hearn
1998
Theory and Society
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Queer Theory and Queer Methods
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70. Fieldwork in the Gay World: Issues in Phenomenological Research
Carol Warren
1977
Journal of Social Issues
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71. From Hiding out to Coming out: Empowering Lesbian and Gay Educators
Pat Griffin
1991
Journal of Homosexuality
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72. Self and Identity in a Postmodern World: A Life Story
William Tierney
1993
Naming Silenced Lives: Personal Narratives and Processes of Educational Change
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73. Hegemonic Heterosexual Masculinity
Blye Frank
1987
Studies in Political Economy
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74. Queer Fears: Against the Cultural Turn
Tim Edwards
1998
Sexualities
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75. “I can't Even Think Straight” “Queer” Theory and the Missing Sexual Revolution in Sociology
Arlene Stein | Ken Plummer
1994
Sociological Theory
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Polyvocality and the Right to Speak
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76. Towards an Anti-Racist Feminism
Jenny Bourne
1983
Race & Class
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77. Sociological Theory: Methods of Writing Patriarchy
Dorothy Smith
1989
Feminism and Sociological Theory
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78. Unsexed and Ungendered Bodies: The Violated Self
Sue Grand
2003
Studies in Gender and Sexuality
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79. The Romance of Resistance: Tracing Transformations of Power through Bedouin Women
Lila Abu-Lughod
1990
American Ethnologist
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80. History in the Making: Narrative as Feminist Text and Practice in a Mexican Feminist Journal
Keith Guzik | Juan Gorlier
2004
Social Movement Studies
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81. The Woman who didn't become a Shaman
Margery Wolf
1990
American Ethnologist
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