Feminist Geography in Practice Research and Methods

by Moss, Pamela

• ISBN13: 9780631220206
• ISBN10: 0631220208
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-02-01
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This is the first feminist geography text devoted to methodology and provides a basic framework for students wishing to undertake gendered work in the discipline. Accessible yet intellectually challenging, it encourages readers to take on, think about, and do feminist research in geography and offers practical suggestions for going about it. The text comprises original contributions from feminist geographers around the world who address all aspects of the research process from choosing a topic and designing a project, through to conducting interviews, doing cross-cultural ethnographic research and analysing data. The varied backgrounds of the contributors illustrate the powerful impact feminist geographers are having on research, both in geography and in feminism. The book also features substantial pedagogical material, developed with students in the classroom, and including discussion questions, group project initiatives, research project topics, and suggestions for practical research activities. Pamela Moss has set up a discussion list for this text. To join the Feminist Geography in Practice discussion list simply send the message sub FGIP to [e-mail]

Author Biography

Pamela Moss is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Human and Social Development at the University of Victoria, British Columbia where she teaches in Studies in Policy and Practice, a critical, interdisciplinary graduate program for community workers interested in social and political change. Her previous publications include Placing Autobiography in Geography (2001).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	viii
List of Figures and Tables	ix
Notes on Contributors	x
Taking on, Thinking about, and Doing Feminist Research in Geography	1	(30)
Pamela Moss
Part I Taking on Feminist Research
Defining Feminism?	21	(4)
Feminist Pedagogy Working Group
Being Feminist in Geography	25	(6)
Feminist Geography in the German-Speaking Academy: History of a Movement
Elisabeth Baschlin
Making Space for Personal Journeys	31	(12)
Mary Gilmartin
Feminist Epistemology in Geography	43	(14)
Meghan Cope
The Difference Feminism Makes: Researching Unemployed Women in an Australian Region	57	(30)
Louise C. Johnson
Study Material for Taking on Feminist Research	71	(6)
Feminist Pedagogy Working Group
Part II Thinking about Feminist Research
Delimiting Language?	77	(3)
Feminist Pedagogy Working Group
Putting Feminist Geography into Practice	80	(7)
Gender, Place and Culture: Paradoxical Spaces?
Liz Bondi
Paradoxical Space: Geography, Men, and Duppy Feminism	87	(16)
David Butz
Lawrence D. Berg
Toward a More Fully Reflexive Feminist Geography	103	(13)
Karen Falconer Al-Hindi
Hope Kawabata
People Like Us: Negotiating Sameness and Difference in the Research Process	116	(30)
Gill Valentine
Study Material for Thinking about Feminist Research	127	(8)
Feminist Pedagogy Working Group
Part III Doing Feminist Research
Decentering Authority!	135	(3)
Feminist Pedagogy Working Group
Doing Geography as a Feminist	138	(8)
Reconsidering Success and Failure in Feminist Research
Maureen G. Reed
Doing Feminist Fieldwork about Geography Fieldwork	146	(14)
Karen Nairn
Quantitative Methods and Feminist Geographic Research	160	(14)
Mei-Po Kwan
Borderlands and Feminist Ethnography	174	(13)
Joan Marshall
Negotiating Positionings: Exchanging Life Stories in Research Interviews	187	(13)
Deirdre McKay
Interviewing Elites: Cautionary Tales about Researching Women Managers in Canada's Banking Industry	200	(14)
Kim V. L. England
Studying Immigrants in Focus Groups	214	(20)
Geraldine Pratt
Study Material for Doing Feminist Research	230	(4)
Feminist Pedagogy Working Group
Further Notes on Feminist Research: Embodied Knowledge in Place	234	(11)
Isabel Dyck
References	245	(20)
Index	265