Feminist Research: Exploring, Interrogating, and Transforming the Interconnections of Epistemology, Methodology, and Method

Abstract

Sharlene nagy heSSe-BiBer Feminist Voices and Visions across the centuries This Handbook begins with voices, visions, and experiences of feminist activists, scholars, and researchers, speaking to us across the decades of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. They provide a legacy of feminist research, praxis, and activism. There lies within these voices a feminist consciousness that opens up intellectual and emotional spaces for all women to articulate their relations to one another and the wider society-spaces where the personal transforms into the political. I do earnestly desire to arouse the women of the North to a realizing sense of the condition of two millions of women at the South, still in bondage, suffering what I suffered, and most of them far worse. I want to add my testimony to that of abler pens to convince the people of the Free States what Slavery really is. Only by experience can anyone realize how deep, and dark, and foul is that pit of abominations. May the blessing of God rest on this imperfect effort in behalf of my persecuted people! (Harriet Jacobs, 1861/1987, pp. 1-2) Author's Note: Much appreciation and gratitude to Alicia Johnson, Hilary Flowers, Abigail Brooks, and Deborah Piatelli, who contributed their academic insights and skillful editing and editorial advice.

Moving beyond ideas of laddism: conceptualising ‘mischievous masculinities’ as a new way of understanding everyday sexism and gender relations

“…In addition to this, feminist theorising is understood to provide a critique of the construction of knowledge, placing emphasis upon situated experiences (Hesse-Biber, 2012;Flax, 1987). Observations and semi structured interviews within the rugby context were implemented to collect data.…”

Moving out of the Shadows: Accomplishing Bisexual Motherhood

“…Social justice and a concern to listen to the diverse voices of women who have been marginalized are established central tenets of feminist theory and research (Hesse-Biber, 2012). Feminist perspectives have enabled us to critically consider how power and the intersection of different group and self-identities interact in the context of family relationships within particular local and national cultural contexts (see Allen & Henderson, in press;Hesse-Biber, 2012).…”

“…Social justice and a concern to listen to the diverse voices of women who have been marginalized are established central tenets of feminist theory and research (Hesse-Biber, 2012). Feminist perspectives have enabled us to critically consider how power and the intersection of different group and self-identities interact in the context of family relationships within particular local and national cultural contexts (see Allen & Henderson, in press;Hesse-Biber, 2012). Yet as Golden in her analyses of radical feminist politics of the U.S. from the 1960s onwards has pointed out, some lesbian feminist perspectives have not always been sympathetic to different expressions of sexual self-identity including heterosexuality and bisexuality (Golden, 1994).…”

“…Yet as S. M. Park has emphasized women parenting together in a variety of family structures troubles a cornerstone of heteronormative power: that a child can have only one mother and one father. Our study, influenced not only by queer theory perspectives (Butler, 1990(Butler, ,1993(Butler, , 2004 but also by ideas from feminist (Hesse-Biber, 2012) and life course theoretical perspectives (Bengston & Allen, 1993;Elder, 1998), sought to understand the extent to which bisexual mothers intentionally or unintentionally challenge heteronormative conceptualizations of the family as they narrated their lives.…”

Pertenencia, pertinencia y diferencia: discurrir por las fronteras del género

“…y ¿quién puede conocer? (Hesse-Biber, 2012), reformuladas en clave política, bajo la interpelación que la crítica feminista plantea al sujeto de conocimiento: ¿quién hace las preguntas? Lo que, de vuelta, y de forma reflexiva, interpela al feminismo sobre el propio quehacer científico, que es siempre también político: ¿qué nos preguntamos?, y por otro lado, como Adrienne Rich (1986Rich ( /2001 repetía en sus -Apuntes para una política de la posición‖, -¿quiénes somos nosotras?‖.…”