(P/B) CHANGING METHODS

Παρουσίαση

Changing Methods is a collection of original essays by feminist practitioners, scholars and activists. The authors show why "the method question" has moved to the top of many feminist research and activist agendas. They experiment with participatory and interpretive research strategies, and engage in thinking about how ideas and actions have developed within complex social circumstances. The essays in this book challenge the tradition that has allowed abstracted, formalized versions of the ideas and experiences of privileged white men to set standards for how everyone should conduct themselves. The authors use new-found knowledge to displace the dominant ideology constructed around race, class, gender, and heterosexual privilege, and then propose innovative feminist-informed analyses of subjects as diverse as political change, critical linguistics, child care, religious studies, and violence against women. This collection expresses the intricate and intimate links that exist, and that must exist, between theoretical reflections and feminist practice. Sandra Burt and Lorraine Code's book succeeds admirably in demonstrating the social pertinence of feminist theory. (from the publisher)

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PREFACE
Sandra Burt and Lorraine Code
CHAPTER ONE
How Do We Know? Questions of Method in Feminist Practice
Lorraine Code
CHAPTER TWO
Critical Linguistics as Feminist Methodology
Susan Ehrlich
CHAPTER THREE
Further Reflections on the "Unacknowledged Quarantine": Feminism and Religious Studies
Randi R. Warne
CHAPTER FOUR
Intimate Outsiders: Feminist Research in a Cross-Cultural Environment
Linda Archibald and Mary Crnkovich
CHAPTER FIVE
Reading Race in Women's Writing
Arun P. Mukherjee
CHAPTER SIX
Farm Women: Cultivating Hope and Sowing Change
Nettie Wiebe
CHAPTER SEVEN
Child Care: A Community Issue
Kristin Colwell
CHAPTER EIGHT
Women and Health: A Feminist Perspective on Tobacco Control
Lorraine Greaves
CHAPTER NINE
Don't Use a Wrench to Peel Potatoes: Biological Science Constructed on Male Model Systems Is a Risk to Women Workers' Health
Karen Messing
CHAPTER TEN
Women and Sport: From Liberal Activism to Radical Cultural Struggle
M. Ann Hall
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Women and Violence: Feminist Practice and Quantitative Method
Lorraine Greaves, Alison Wylie et al.
CHAPTER TWELVE
The Gender Gap: Re-evaluating Theory and Method
Brenda O'Neill
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
The Several Worlds of Policy Analysis: Traditional Approaches and Feminist Critiques
Sandra Burt
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX