Feminist Research Methodology: Making Meanings of Meaning-making
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- Synopsis
- This book focuses on feminist research methodology, exploring and analysing its constituting methods, theory, ontology, epistemology, and, ethics and politics, as well as the significance of the subjectivity of the researcher, in research issues relating to women, gender and feminism in Sri Lanka. The book examines ways of meaning-making for the political, ideological and social change, and constructs an example of feminist research praxis. Using this South Asian country as a case study, the author looks at the means by which researchers in this field inhabit, engage with and represent the multiple realities of women and society in Sri Lanka. In analysing what constitutes feminist research methodology in a transitional country, the book links local research practices with Western feminist approaches, taking into account commonalities, distinctions and specificities of working in a South Asian context. With an emphasis on general issues and debates in global feminist theory and methodology, the book explores the issues of reflexivity, standpoint, gender, women's agency, empricism and feminist politics of Marxism and democracy, positivism, induction, deduction, post-modernism and post-colonialism. Engaging with and re-conceptualising three traditionally different types of research - women's studies, gender studies and feminist studies - Feminist Research Methodology provides a framework for researching feminist issues. Applicable at both local and global levels, this original methodological framework will be of value to researchers working in any context.
- Copyright:
- 2014
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9789384757717
- Publisher:
- Zubaan Books
- Date of Addition:
- 09/24/17
- Copyrighted By:
- Maithree Wickramasinghe, 2
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
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- Bookshare Staff
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- This is a copyrighted book.