Feminism Counts : Quantitative Methods and Researching Gender

ISBN-13: 9780415592062 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 104 str.

Christina Hughes; Rachel Lara Cohen

Opis

This is an important and timely text that provides a unique overview of contemporary quantitative approaches to gender research. The contributors are internationally recognised researchers from the UK, USA and Sweden who occupy a range of disciplinary locations, including historical demography, sociology and policy studies.

Spis treści

1. Feminists Really Do Count: The Complexity of Feminist Methodologies  Christina Hughes and Rachel Cohen  2. Doing Feminist Demography  Jill Williams  3. Identifying Dissonant and Complementary Data on Women through the Triangulation of Historical Sources  Lotta Vikstrom  4. Quantitative Methods and Gender Inequalities  Jacqueline Scott  5. Measuring Equalities: Data and Indicators in Britain  Sylvia Walby and Jo Armstrong  6. Feminist Epistemology and the Politics of Method – Surveying Same Sex Domestic Violence  Marianne Hester, Catherine Donovan and Eldin Fahmy  7. Counting Woman Abuse: A Cautionary Tale of Two Surveys  Diane Croker