Feminist Research Methodology: Making Meanings of Meaning-Making (Routledge Research on Gender in Asia Series)

Synopsis

This book focuses on feminist research methodology, exploring and analysing its constituting methods, theory, ontology, epistemology, ethics and politics, and research issues relating to women, gender and feminism in Sri Lanka. The book examines ways of meaning-making for the political, ideological and ethical purposes of promoting individual 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 the commonalities, distinctions and specificities of working in a South Asian context. Engaging with and re-conceptualising three traditionally different types of research - women’s studies, gender studies and feminist studies - from a methodological perspective, Feminist Research Methodology provides a framework for researching feminist issues. Applicable at both a local and global level, this original methodological framework will be of value to researchers working in any context.

Copyright:

2010

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Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9781135259570

Related ISBNs:

9780203867327, 9780415682121, 9780415494168, 9780415682121, 9780415494168

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

03/22/20

Copyrighted By:

Maithree Wickramasinghe

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

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No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Social Studies, Politics and Government

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