Gender and Qualitative Methods

Gender and Export Behaviour: Evidence from Women-Owned Enterprises

“…Accordingly, Fletcher and Ely (2003, p. 3) proposed that gender be conceptualised as having two inter-related dimensions: gender identity, which is an individual process referring to ''the sense one makes of the fact that one is male or female''; and gender relations, which are more structural in nature and refer to ''the way the social world is built, in part, by making distinctions between men and women''. Moreover, as a process of self-identification and social categorisation, gender exists alongside other forms of social identity (Järviluoma et al, 2003).…”

Dilemmas in Research: Issues of Vulnerability and Disempowerment for the Social Worker/Researcher

“…This substantiates similar claims about the inevitability of the merging of categories and identities in research (Jarviluoma et al, 2003). For instance, Stanley's (1992) theory of 'auto/biography' contends that researchers, knowingly or unconsciously, will produce their own story, alongside that of their informants.…”

The Palgrave Handbook of the Psychology of Sexuality and Gender

“…The foundations of gender studies can be linked to early feminist studies such as Simone de Beauvoir's book The Second Sex, which unpacked the 'otherness' of women in a sexist and patriarchal Western culture where women became defined in relation to men (Jarviluoma et al, 2003). A key thrust of early research was to problematise the 'natural' differences between the binary categories of sex outlined in much early work on sex differences and to fight for equality.…”