Naples Feminism and Method

Ethnography, Discourse Analysis, and Activist Research
Erscheinungsjahr 2013
ISBN: 978-1-134-56807-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 280 Seiten

Naples draws on different research topics, such as welfare, poverty, sexual identity, and sexual abuse, to illustrate some of the most salient dilemmas of feminist research: the debate over objectivity, the paradox of discourse, the dilemma of "standpoint," and the challenges of activist research. By linking important feminist theoretical debates with case studies, Naples illustrates the strategies she developed for resolving the challenges posed be postmodern, Third World, postcolonial, and queer studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Naples, Nancy A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Feminismus, Feministische Theorie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Table of Contents

preface

acknowledgments

Par t I: Introduction
Chapter 1 Feminism and Method
Chapter 2 Epistemology, Feminist Methodology, and the Politics of Method

Part II: Standpoint Epistemologies, Reflective Practice, and Feminist Ethnography
Chapter 3 Standpoint Analysis and Reflective Practice
Chapter 4 The Insider/Outsider Debate: A Feminist Revisiting
Chapter 5 Standpoint Epistemology: Explicating Multiple Dimensions

Part III: Feminist Materialism, Discourse Analysis, and Policy Studies
Chapter 6 Community Control: Mapping the Changing Context
Chapter 7 The Gendered Social Contract: Constructing the "New Consensus"

Part IV: Activism, Narrative, and Empowerment
Chapter 8 Bringing Everyday Life to Policy Analysis
Chapter 9 The Survivor Discourse: Narrative, Empowerment, and Resistance
Chapter 10 Survivors Going Public: Reflections on the Limits of Participatory Research

Part V: Conclusion
Chapter 11 Negotiating the Politics of Method

appendices

notes

references
index

Über Autor(innen)

Nancy A. Naples is Professor of Sociology and Women's Studies at the University of Connecticut. She has published several books, including Women's Activism and Globalization, Teaching Feminist Activism, and Grassroots Warriors, which was a finalist for the C. Wright Mills Award from the Society for the Study of Social Problems (all published by Routledge).