Feminist Geography in Practice: Research and Methods

ISBN-13: 9780631220206 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 292 str.

Pamela J. Moss; Lektorin Elizab Baschlin; Lawrence K. W. Berg

Opis

This is the first feminist geography text devoted to methodology and provides a basic framework for students wishing to undertake gendered work in the discipline

Recenzje

"Feminist Geography in Practice offers a fast–paced field guide to feminist research in Geography . One of the key contributions of this book is that it develops and demonstrates the understanding that feminist research always takes place at the intersection of the personal, the political, and the academic . This is a timely textbook that represents the maturing of a field. It will be invaluable for courses in research methodology and in feminist geography, and it should be mandatory reading for students and practitioners who are undertaking or want to undertake research that is explicitly feminist." Professor Joni Seager, The University of Vermont

Spis treści

Acknowledgments.

List of Figures and Tables.

Notes on Contributors.

1. Taking on, Thinking about, and Doing Feminist Research in Geography. (Pamela Moss).

Part I: Taking on Feminist Research.

Defining Feminism?: Feminist Pedagogy Working Group.

Short 1. Being Feminist in Geography – Feminist Geography in the German–Speaking Academy: History of a Movement. (Elisabeth Baschlind).

2. Making Space for Personal Journeys. (Mary Gilmartin).

3. Feminist Epistemology in Geography. (Meghan Cope).

4. The Difference Feminism Makes: Researching Unemployed Women in an Australian Region. (Louise C. Johnson).

Study Material for Taking on Feminist Research: Feminist Pedagogy Working Group.

Part II: Thinking about Feminist Research.

Delimiting Language?: Feminist Pedagogy Working Group.

Short 2. Putting Feminist Geography into Practice – Gender, Place and Culture: Paradoxical Spaces?. (Liz Bondi).

5. Paradoxical Space: Geography, Men, and Duppy Feminism. (David Butz and Lawrence D. Berg).

6. Toward a More Fully Reflexive Feminist Geography. (Karen Falconer Al–Hindi and Hope Kawabata).

7. People Like Us: Negotiating Sameness and Difference in the Research Process. (Gill Valentine).

Study Material for Thinking About Feminist Research: Feminist Pedagogy Working Group.

Part III: Doing Feminist Research.

Decentering Authority!: Feminist Pedagogy Working Group.

Short 3. Doing Geography as a Feminist – Reconsidering Success and Failure in Feminist Research. (Maureen G. Reed).

8. Doing Feminist Fieldwork about Geography Fieldwork. (Karen Nairn).

9. Quantitative Methods and Feminist Geographic Research. (Mei–Po Kwan).

10. Borderlands in Feminist Ethnography. (Joan Marshall).

11. Negotiating Positionings: Exchanging Life Stories in Research Interviews. (Deirdre McKay).

12. Interviewing Elites: Cautionary Tales about Researching Women Magazines in Canada′s Banking Industry. (Kim V. L. England).

13. Studying Immigrants in Focus Groups. (Geraldine Pratt).

Study Material for Doing Feminist Research: Feminist Pedagogy Working Group.

14. Further Notes on Feminist Research: Embodied Knowledge in Place. (Isabel Dyck).

References.

Index.

O autorze

Pamela Moss is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Human and Social Development at the University of Victoria, British Columbia where she teaches in Studies in Policy and Practice, a critical, interdisciplinary graduate program for community workers interested in social and political change. Her previous publications include Placing Autobiography in Geography (2001).

Blurb

This is the first feminist geography text devoted to methodology and provides a basic framework for students wishing to undertake gendered work in the discipline. Accessible yet intellectually challenging, it encourages readers to take on, think about, and do feminist research in geography and offers practical suggestions for going about it.

The text comprises original contributions from feminist geographers around the world who address all aspects of the research process from choosing a topic and designing a project, through to conducting interviews, doing cross–cultural ethnographic research and analysing data. The varied backgrounds of the contributors illustrate the powerful impact feminist geographers are having on research, both in geography and in feminism. The book also features substantial pedagogical material, developed with students in the classroom, and including discussion questions, group project initiatives, research project topics, and suggestions for practical research activities.

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