Feminist Empirical Research

by Addison, Joanne

• ISBN13: 9780867094824
• ISBN10: 0867094826
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-09-13
• Publisher: Heinemann

Summary

Feminist Empirical Research is designed to introduce those who are interested in feminism, or already attempting to conduct empirical research in feminist ways, to theoretical and methodological discussions as well as practical strategies that can help not only feminist empirical researchers, but empirical researchers in general.

Author Biography

JOANNE ADDISON is currently an assistant professor at the University of Colorado-Denver, where she teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in rhetoric, cultural studies, and qualitative research as well as computers and writing.SHARON JAMES MCGEE is an assistant professor of English at Kansas State University-Salina, where she teaches composition, technical writing, and literature.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	1	(8)
Part I: Reflecting on Experience and Constructing the Issues	9	(63)
Which Me Is the Me That Got the Ph.D.?: Reflections on a Graduate Research Project	9	(15)
Susan Latta
Discerning Domesticities: Constructing Critical Narrative in Composition	24	(16)
Cheryl Forbes
My World Is Made Up of Stories: Reflections of a Feminist Teacher-Researcher	40	(13)
Victoria Holmsten
Teacher Action Theory: Teacher Research and Feminist Critical Theory As Partners in Liberatory Writing Pedagogy	53	(19)
Kathleen Parvin
Part II: Studies in Feminist Empirical Research	72	(73)
Power and Gendered Discourses: Girls Learning School Writing	72	(15)
Judy Hunter
Beginning Adult Women Students As College Writers: A Study in the Difficulties of Dialogue	87	(25)
Margaret Lindgren
The Hard Work of Remembering: Memory Work as Narrative Research	112	(15)
Margaret S. Ewing
Adrienne E. Hyle
Judith S. Kaufman
Diane M. Montgomery
Patricia A. Self
Feminine Discourse in the University: The Writing Center Conference As a Site of Linguistic Resistance	127	(18)
Janet Bean
Part III: Comment and Response	145	(28)
On Feminist Research: What Do Women Want (Now)?, or A Query Regarding Con/Textual Relationships	145	(13)
Kathleen Blake Yancey
Reflecting on Collaboration in Feminist Empirical Research: Some Cautions	158	(5)
Gesa E. Kirsch
Teacher Research As Knowledge Making: Dogma and Resistance	163	(10)
Robert P. Yagelski
Selected Annotated Bibliography of Feminist Research	173	(6)
Contributors	179