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*Hesse-Biber, Sharlene Nagy and Michelle L. Yaiser (eds). Feminist Perspectives on Social Research. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004.Links
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* Ramazanoğlu, C., & Holland, J. (2002). Feminist Methodology. London, England: SAGE Publications Ltd. (e-book). Link DOI
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1: Introduction and overview I: Feminist research/methodology
*Hesse-Biber, Sharlene Nagy and Denise Leckenby: "How Feminists Practice Social Research" in Hesse-Biber et.al. (eds). : Feminist Perspectives on Social Research, 2004. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 209-225
* Ramazanoğlu, C., & Holland, J. (2002). Feminist Methodology.London, England: SAGE Publications Ltd. (e-book) (s 2-21) (123-143)
Example: Scott, Joan W.: "Feminism's History" in Journal of Women's History. Vol. 16.2 , 2004. 10-26 (16 p).
2: FIELDWORK: Methods and theories in practice. Student presentations and reflections from fieldwork exercise
(practical fieldwork exercise)
Chin, Elizabeth: "Reflections on race, the body and boundaries: How to get on the bus," Ethnologia Europea. Vol. 41, No. 1, 2011, p. 40-51 (12 p)
* Ramazanoğlu, C., & Holland, J. (2002). Feminist Methodology.London, England: SAGE Publications Ltd. 105-123
*Hesse-Biber, Sharlene Nagy, Patricia Leavy and Michelle L. Yaiser: "Difference Matters: Studying across Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality" in Hesse-Biber et.al. (eds) : Feminist Perspectives on Social Research, 2004. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 101-117
Examples:
Harding (2004) pp 177-195; Alcoff (2006) pp 1-9; Gressgård (2008) pp 1-16
3: Quantitative and Qualitative methods
*Hollander, Jocelyn A: "Vulnerability and Dangerousness: The Construction of Gender through Conversation about Violence" in *Hesse-Biber et.al. (eds) : Feminist Perspectives on Social Research, 2004. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 296-317 (21 p).
* Ramazanoğlu, C., & Holland, J. (2002). Feminist Methodology.London, England: SAGE Publications Ltd. (145-165)
4: Epistemology and research
Davis, Kathy: “Intersectionality as buzzword: A sociology of science perspective on what makes a feminist theory successful”, Feminist Theory, 2008, vol. 9. No. 1, p. 67-85 (18 p)
* Ramazanoğlu, C., & Holland, J. (2002). Feminist Methodology.London, England: SAGE Publications Ltd. (83-105)
Examples: Fox Keller (1987) pp 37-49; Lie; Butler (2008) pp 1-23; Moi (2008) pp 348-368)
5 Objectivity, Standpoint Theory
* Ramazanoğlu, C., & Holland, J. (2002). Feminist Methodology.London, England: SAGE Publications Ltd. (24-41))
Examples:
*Smith pp 27-38; *Harding pp 39-58; Bhavnani pp 65-75
6: Language, writing and storytelling
*Devault, Marjorie L: "Talking and Listening from Women's Standpoint: Feminist strategies for Interviewing and Analysis" in Hesse-Biber, Sharlene Nagy and Michelle L. Yaiser (eds): Feminist Perspectives on Social Research, 2004. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 227-246 (19 p)
Examples:
Bacchi (2005) pp 198-209; Berg (2008) pp 213-227; Scott (2011) pp 203–209
7: Translation and Travelling Concepts
Bal, Mieke. 2009. "Working with concepts, " European Journal of English Studies 13(1): 13-23 (10 p)
xBraidotti, Rosi,: "The Uses and Abuses of the Sex/Gender Distinction in European Feminist Practices" in Griffin, Gabriele and Braidotti, Rosi (eds): Thinking Differently. A European Women's Studies Reader, 2002. London: Zed Books. 285-304
Mehrez, Samia: "Translating Gender" in Journal of Middle East Women's Studies 3.1, 2006. 106-126. (10 p)
Nielsen, Harriet Bjerrum: “Historical, cultural, and emotional meanings: Interviews with young girls in three generations,” NORA - Nordic Journal of Feminist and Gender Research, vol. 11, no. 1, 2003, p. 14-26 (12 p)
Spivak, Gayatri C: “The Politics of Translation”, in her Outside in the Teaching Machine, 1993. London and New York: Routledge. 179-200 (21 p)
Widerberg, Karin: "Translating Gender" in NORA. Vol. 6. 2, 1998. 133 -138 (5 p)
8: Culture, Materiality and Technology
Ahmed, S.: “Open Forum Imaginary Prohibitions: Some Preliminary Remarks on the Founding Gestures of the ‘New Materialism’,” European Journal of Women’s Studies 15.1 (2008) p. 23–39. (16 p.)
xDe Lauretis, Teresa: “Through the looking-glass: Woman, cinema, and language,” in Alice Doesn’t: Feminism, semiotics and cinema, 1984. Bloomington: Indiana U.P. pp.12-36.
Haraway, Donna. “Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective,” in Feminist Studies, 14:3, 1988. 575-599 (25 p)
Skeggs, Beverley: "The moral economy of person production: the class relations of self-performance on ‘reality’ television" in The Sociological Review Vol. 57.4, 2009. 626–644, (18
Davis, Noela: “New Materialism and Feminism's Anti-Biologism: A Response to Sara Ahmed,” European Journal of Women's Studies, 2009, vol. 16, no. 1, p. 67-80