Cofielding in Qualitative Interviews: Gender, Knowledge, and Interaction in a Study of (Pro)Feminist Men

Holmgren, Linn Egeberg

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“…Kjellberg, 2013;Kamyab and Geborek Lundberg, 2019) and in smaller postdoctoral projects (Ekelund, 2020). One of the few more extensive studies about men engaging in feminism, some of them working to prevent violence against women, has been conducted by Egeberg Holmgren (2011aHolmgren ( , 2011b. She carried out qualitative interviews with 28 young men aged 20-34 in Sweden who identified as 'feminist', exploring their gendered and gender political positions and practices.…”

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Men’s Activism to End Violence Against Women

Westmarland¹,

Almqvist²,

Holmgren³

et al. 2021

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Using case studies from Europe and the UK, this book highlights those men who are taking action to eradicate violence against women. Examining the factors that support men to take a public stance, the authors also demonstrate what we can learn from their experiences to help build the movement to end violence against women. This important study will inform grassroots movements working to involve and engage men and boys in building gender equality.

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Section: The Swedish Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Men’s Activism to End Violence Against Women

Westmarland¹,

Almqvist²,

Holmgren³

et al. 2021

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“…The effects of interviewer gender on eliciting trust and disclosure from men has been explored, as has the suggestion that the configuration of woman interviewer and male participant, particularly in narrative interviews, can lead to the reinforcement of women's traditional roles as listeners and facilitators of men's stories and emotional disclosure (see for e.g. Broom et al, 2009;Chowdhury, 2017;Egeberg Holmgren, 2011;Hanlon, 2012;Pini, 2005;Schwalbe and Wolkomir, 2001;Williams and Heikes, 1993). Hanlon (2012: 18-19) states that '[w]omen's traditional positioning as attentive and empathetic emotional listeners .…”

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Balancing generosity and critique: reflections on interviewing young men and implications for research methodologies and ethics

Elliott

Roberts

2020

Qualitative Research

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Feminist research methodologies have challenged power imbalances in qualitative interviews and gendered inequalities more broadly. We explore the methodological and ethical complexities of, and implications for, doing feminist research with young men. We draw on two studies in which narrative interviews with young men were conducted: one in 2014 and 2015 with 28 middle-class men between the ages of 20 and 31 living in Australia and Germany; and one a longitudinal study beginning in 2009 in the south-east of England with 24 working-class men between the ages of 18 and 24. We explore the production of narratives in interviews with young men, rapport-building, and interactional issues. Balancing generosity and critique emerges as a key ethical and methodological consideration for research conducted with young men. We suggest that negotiating the tensions of this balance can hold key possibilities for research and for proliferating alternative modes of masculinity.

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“…My male identity was also potentially problematic in that participants may have changed their conduct owing to my gender, thereby possibly threatening the data collection process. In two separate studies with young men at University, Sallee and Harris (2011) suggest that their responses changed depending on whether they were interviewed by a male or female researcher, thereby showing how cross-gender interactions can alter the research process. The following fieldnotes detail the aftermath of an ultrasound scan in which a pregnant woman was accompanied by two female friends:…”

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Doing Gender in a Hospital Setting: Reflections of a Male Researcher

Thomas

2017

Sociological Research Online

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Very little attention has been afforded to how male researchers actively position their gender in their studies, particularly in ethnographic research located within settings populated largely by women. In this article, I reflect on my own gender work during an ethnography of prenatal clinics and how this was articulated with other aspects of my researcher self. By reporting on the successes and failures of this performance, I argue that my gender constituted an essential element in the everyday negotiations between myself and female participants. In so doing, I suggest that reflexive commentaries of how researchers perform gender should not be viewed as a form of egotistic self-indulgence. Rather, they should be read as valuable statements for rendering the researcher visible and, here, for revealing how issues of doing gender play out during fieldwork. KeywordsEmotions, ethnography, fieldwork, gender, hospital, identity, male researcher, masculinity, qualitative methods, reflexivityIn this article, I reflect on my experiences as a male researcher carrying out an ethnography in a setting occupied largely by women (prenatal clinics). Critical reflections and detailed confessions are a fairly common trait of the ethnographic craft; researchers have been rendered visible as a presence affecting all aspects of research, including constructing its narrative (Scott et al. 2012). Such accounts contain a wealth of information about -among other things -gaining access, collecting data, relationships, and exiting the field. Some of these arguments address gender reflexivity, a topic which has received renewed interest in sociology (but has a longer history in anthropology) -particularly from female academics researching primarily 'male' sites. For example, Poulton (2012) discusses her experiences of researching the hyper-masculine subculture of football hooliganism within the UK. She criticises the 'gender blindness' of male researchers doing similar studies who fail to consider the positionings, practices, and performances of the gendered self (2012, para. 1.1). In her study, Poulton describes 2 feeling obligated to prove she had 'balls' (para 7.2) to negotiate difficult situations and emotions. In describing her gender as a 'useful tool' (para 4.9), Poulton suggests that researchers should consider their gender more critically and work harder to disclose the complexities and messiness of qualitative work over offering purely sanitised accounts of methodological processes and practices.Despite such incitements, very few male researchers have written about their own research experiences. Limited to 'bar-room confessionals' or amusing anecdotes, such accounts -according to Back (1993: 215) -point to a need for a 'more sensitive appreciation of the politics of research' and responding positively to feminist critiques of methodological practice. There may be reasons for this absence other than Poulton's charge of gender blindness. Do some men not see such reflections as a priority or as a determinant in attaining ac...

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Cofielding in Qualitative Interviews: Gender, Knowledge, and Interaction in a Study of (Pro)Feminist Men

Cited by 22 publications

References 27 publications

Men’s Activism to End Violence Against Women

Men’s Activism to End Violence Against Women

Balancing generosity and critique: reflections on interviewing young men and implications for research methodologies and ethics

Doing Gender in a Hospital Setting: Reflections of a Male Researcher

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