Gettin’ a little crafty: Teachers Pay Teachers©, Pinterest© and neo-liberalism in new materialist feminist research

Feminist research is described in terms of its purposes of addressing women’s lives, advocacy for women, analysis of gender oppression, working for social justice, and transformation of society. Feminist critiques of social science research are reviewed in relation to the development of methodological and epistemological positions. Feminist research is viewed as contributing to the transformation of science from empiricism to postmodernism. Reflexivity, collaboration, power analysis, and advocacy are discussed as common practices of feminist qualitative research. Several qualitative approaches to research are described in relation to feminist research goals, with illustrations of feminist research included. Validity and voice are identified as particular challenges in the conduct of feminist qualitative research. Intersectionality and double consciousness are reviewed as feminist contributions to the transformation of science. Some emerging and innovative forms of feminist qualitative research are highlighted in relation to potential future directions.

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Sociology of Feminist Research in Canada

Signs ◽

10.1086/493473 ◽

1977 ◽

Vol 3 (2) ◽

pp. 409-422 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Margrit Eichler

Keyword(s):

Feminist Research

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Does Poverty Wear a Woman's Face? Some Moral Dimensions of a Transnational Feminist Research Project

Hypatia ◽

10.1111/hypa.12022 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 28 (2) ◽

pp. 240-256 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Alison M. Jaggar

Keyword(s):

Feminist Research ◽

Moral Judgments ◽

Global Poverty ◽

Research Project ◽

Decent Life ◽

Moral Argumentation ◽

The World ◽

Moral Dimensions

This article explains some moral dimensions of a transnational feminist research project designed to provide a better standard or metric for measuring poverty across the world. The author is an investigator on this project. Poverty metrics incorporate moral judgments about what is necessary for a decent life, so justifying metrics requires moral argumentation. The article clarifies the moral aspects of poverty valuation, indicates some moral flaws in existing global poverty metrics, and outlines some conditions for a better global metric. It then explains the methodology used in our project, providing its moral rationale and discussing some remaining moral concerns.

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Old teachers: a feminist research agenda

History of Education ◽

10.1080/0046760x.2021.1884755 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-16

Author(s):

Kate Rousmaniere

Keyword(s):

Research Agenda ◽

Feminist Research

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“How Will You Give Back?”: On Becoming a Compañera as a Feminist Methodology from the Cracks

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography ◽

10.1177/08912416211021631 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 089124162110216

Author(s):

Firuzeh Shokooh Valle

Keyword(s):

Costa Rica ◽

Puerto Rican ◽

Textual Analysis ◽

Participant Observation ◽

Feminist Research ◽

Feminist Methodology ◽

Production Of Knowledge ◽

Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽

Power Inequality ◽

Depth Interviews

Issues of power, inequality, and representation in the production of knowledge have a long history in transnational feminist research. And yet the unequal relationship between ethnographers and participants continues to haunt feminist research. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork with the cooperative Sulá Batsú in Costa Rica between 2015 and 2019, in this essay I argue that centering solidarity and working through discomfort creates relationships that can reinvent and endure the persistent imbalance of power between researcher and participant. I conceptualize a solidarity-based methodology that is uncomfortable, tossing between "us and them," the objective and the subjective, akin to Gloria Anzaldúa’s “nepantla,” a liminal space of both fragmentation and unification, of both anguish and healing: a methodology from the cracks. In this essay, I reflect upon my experiences as a Puerto Rican feminist researcher focusing on Sulá Batsú, specifically on my relationship with the coop’s general coordinator. I conducted ethnographic fieldwork with the coop, including participant observation, in-depth interviews, and textual analysis of their research, briefs, blog posts, presentations, and promotional literature.

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