Feminist Dilemmas in Qualitative Research

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.

ISBN 0761956654   Pages 224 ISBN13 9780761956655 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher SAGE Publications Ltd   Weight (grammes) 321 Imprint SAGE Publications Ltd   Published in London Format Paperback   Height (mm) 234 Publication date 12 Dec 1997   Width (mm) 156 Library of Congress H   Spine width (mm) 12 DEWEY 300.72   Academic level Tertiary education, Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC21

PART ONE: INTRODUCING OUR VOICES Public Knowledge, Private Lives, Personal Experience - Rosalind Edwards and Jane Ribbens Hearing My Own Voice? An Autobiographical Discussion of Motherhood - Jane Ribbens PART ONE: SPEAKING AND LISTENING: REFLECTING MULTILAYERED VOICES Bringing Silent Voices into a Public Discourse - Melanie Mauthner Shifting Layers of Professional, Lay and Personal Narratives - Tina Miller Public and Private Meanings in Diaries - Linda Bell Theoretical Voices and Women's Own Voices - Janet Parr PART TWO: HEARING AND REPRESENTATNG: REFLECTING THE PRIVATE IN PUBLIC Hearing Competing Voices - Miri Song Sibling Research Reflections on a Voice-Centred Relational Method - Natasha Mauthner and Andrea Doucet Representing Voices in Ethnography and Discourse Analysis - Pam Alldred Re/constructing Research Narratives - Maxine Birch Writing the Voices of the Less Powerful - Kay Standing Research on Lone Mothers Epilogue - Jane Ribbens and Rosalind Edward

'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

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