Intersectional Feminist Research Methodologies

Auteur

Jennifer Cooke is Reader in Contemporary Literature and Theory at Loughborough University, UK.

Line Nyhagen is Professor of Sociology at Loughborough University, UK, and Adjunct Professor at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway.

Texte du rabat

Feminist Intersectional Research Methodologies: Applications in the Social Sciences and Humanities is a multi-disciplinary volume in which scholars present new feminist research methods and re-evaluates existing approaches. It will be of value to undergraduate and graduate students conducting research, as well as feminist researchers.

Résumé

Intersectional Feminist Research Methodologies: Applications in the Social Sciences and Humanities is a multi-disciplinary volume in which emerging and established scholars present new feminist research methods and re-evaluate existing approaches.

This collection examines how both new and established feminist methods address intersecting identities and structures of inequality including gender, race, sexuality, and class. Each chapter provides a case study of a methodology or methodologies that have been adopted, developed, or adapted within the author's field including sociology, criminology, political science, history, literature, and performance studies. The volume articulates the importance of knowledge production that arises from the situated and lived experiences of individuals, groups, and communities. It discusses how we survive as feminists in today's neoliberal universities, and includes research on trans and nonbinary people, Indonesian history and the #MeToo movement, world-literature from the Philippines, memory work, and crime on the London transport network. The contributors engage with intersectionality in different ways but collectively they demonstrate the pervasiveness of intersectional thinking and practice in feminist scholarship today.

Intersectional Feminist Research Methodologies will be of value to both undergraduate and graduate students conducting research, as well as doctoral researchers and more established feminist researchers.

Contenu

Introduction 1. Living and Researching Embodied Intersectionality 2. The Play's the Thing: Using Creative Methods to Place Trans and Queer Knowledge-making Centre Stage 3. Decolonising Feminism and Feminist Decolonialism: The Case of #MeToo in Indonesia 4. Understanding Sexual Harassment on Public Transport through Feminist Epistemologies and Rhythmanalysis 5. On the Creation of New Ecological Writing 6. Memory Work as a Collaborative Intersectional Feminist Research Method 7. Aging, Care, and Women's Work: A World-Systems Feminist Approach to Filipina Literature 8. Becoming a Strongwoman: An Auto/ethnographic Study of the Pursuit of Strength, Power, and Gender Aesthetics 9. The Archival is Personal is Political: Historiography, the Archive and Feminist Research Methods 10. Conducting Survey Research While A Feminist: Taking Intersectional and Decolonial Approaches 11. Close Reading: Critical Feminist Method and Pedagogical Process 12. Cultivating a 'Feminist Reflexive Sensibility' in Social Research: A Re-evaluation of Reflexivity and Intersectionality in the Neoliberal Academy 13. Location, Contradiction, Ambivalence: Feminist Methodologies Within and Beyond the University