FEMINIST METHODOLOGY: CHALLENGES AND CHOICES

Book Details:

• ISBN: 9789354796104

• Author: Caroline Ramazanoglu, Janet Holland

• Publisher: Rawat Publications

• Binding: Hardback

• Number of Pages: 196

• Publication Year: 2025

• Sale Territory: India Only

About the Book
This book provides a comprehensive review of feminist methodology, offering accessible explanations of challenging concepts and debates. It carefully outlines the key considerations to make when selecting methodological approaches, showing how these choices influence the production of knowledge. Aimed at anyone looking to grasp feminist methodological issues, the book emphasizes the importance of empirical investigations into gendered life.

Feminist Methodology explores how feminist approaches engage with Western philosophical debates to raise critical questions about knowledge production. It highlights the unique position of feminist methodology in social research and guides readers through its terrain, showing how feminists can claim knowledge of gendered social existence. The book connects theoretical issues with fieldwork practices, making it an invaluable resource for students in women’s studies, gender studies, sociology, cultural studies, social anthropology, and feminist psychology.

Contents

• Introduction

• PART ONE: FEMINISM'S ENLIGHTENMENT LEGACY AND ITS CONTRADICTIONS

  • Reason, Science and Progress

  • Feminism's Enlightenment Inheritance

  • Can Feminists Tell the Truth? Challenges of Scientific Method

  • From Truth/Reality to Knowledge/Power

  • Taking a Feminist Standpoint

• PART TWO: FREEDOM, FRAGMENTATION AND RESISTANCE

  • Escape from Epistemology? The Impact of Postmodern Thought on Feminist Methodology

  • Researching `Others'

  • Feminist Methodology and the Politics of Difference

  • Knowledge, Experience and Reality

  • Justifying Feminist Connections

• PART THREE: MEETING CHALLENGES, MAKING CHOICES

  • Choices and Decisions

  • Doing a Feminist Research Project

  • Conclusion

About the Author / Editor
Caroline Ramazanoglu is a professor at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK.
Janet Holland is a professor at London South Bank University, UK, with research interests in youth, education, families, intimacy, feminist theory, and qualitative longitudinal methods. She is the Co-Director of Timescapes, a UK-based qualitative longitudinal study.