ISBN:
9780415452144
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (326 p)
Series Statement:
Transformations
Series Statement:
Transformations Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process : Feminist Reflections
DDC:
305.4201
Keywords:
Feminism - Research
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Feminist research is informed by a history of breaking silences, of demanding that women's voices be heard, recorded and included in wider intellectual genealogies and histories. This has led to an emphasis on voice and speaking out in the research endeavour. Moments of secrecy and silence are less often addressed. This gives rise to a number of questions. What are the silences, secrets, omissions and and political consequences of such moments? What particular dilemmas and constraints do they represent or entail? What are their implications for research praxis? Are such moments always indi
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Notes on contributors; Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I Interpreting and theorising silence; 1 Choosing silence: rethinking voice, agency and women's empowerment; 2 Forms of knowing and un-knowing: secrets about society, sexuality and God in Northern Kenya; 3 Unknowable secrets and golden silence: reflexivity and research on sex tourism; 4 The desire to talk and sex/gender-related silences in interviews with male heterosexual clients of prostitutes
Description / Table of Contents:
5 Silencing accounts of silenced sexualitiesPART II The unspoken in the research process; 6 Silencing differences: the 'unspoken' dimensions of 'speaking for others'; 7 Not telling it how it is: secrets and silences of a critical feminist researcher; 8 Critiquing thinness and wanting to be thin; 9 Inside 'doorwork': gendering the security gaze; 10 Raising the curtain on survey work; PART III Silence, secrecy and telling research stories; 11 Avoiding the 'R-word': racism in feminist collectives; 12 Suppressing intertextual understandings: negotiating interviews and analysis
Description / Table of Contents:
13 Dirty work: researching women and sexual representation14 Keeping mum: secrecy and silence in research on lesbian parenthood; 15 Silenced by law: the cautionary tale of women on the line; PART IV Affective dilemmas; 16 Animating hatreds: research encounters, organisational secrets, emotional truths; 17 Breaking the silence: the hidden injuries of the neoliberal university; 18 Silence and secrets: confidence in research; 19 Shameful silences: self-protective secrets and theoretical omissions; 20 Living in the real world? What happens when the media covers feminist research
Description / Table of Contents:
21 The place of secrets, silences and sexualities in the research processIndex
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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