Resources for Feminist Research articles from September 2000

Resources for Feminist Research archives from September 2000

Introduction.
September 22, 2000... The idea for a special issue on feminist qualitative research methodologies grew out of two different but concurrent experiences in 1997. Linda, a sociologist, presented a paper to the annual meeting of the Canadian Women's Studies Association...

Between a flake and a strident bitch: Making 'IT' count in the academy. (Articles).
September 22, 2000... In this paper, we address issues of (ac)countability in the context of reflexively critiquing how feminist qualitative research is conventionally understood within the mainstream academy. The concrete examples we give may be from different...

(DE)constructing the interview: A critique of the participatory model.
September 22, 2000... Feminist approaches to the use of interviewing emphasize the importance of building rapport with respondents in order to achieve a successful research outcome. This participatory model" is concerned with addressing power differentials between...

"Not the same story": Conducting interviews with queer community activists (1).
September 22, 2000... In this paper I critically reflect upon the process of employing oral history to inform socio-political theory. My own research serves as an example of the strengths and challenges of this approach. Specifically, I will outline the various...

"A wild feminist at her raving best": Reflections on studying gender bias in the legal profession.
September 22, 2000... Joan Brockman (1) This paper examines the use of face-to-face interviews and self-response questionnaires as methods for studying issues of gender bias in the legal profession. It draws on personal interviews with 50 women and 50 men...

Doing fieldwork on women in theocratic islamic states: A critique of the politics of empiricism (1).
September 22, 2000... This paper examines the way some feminist advocates of cultural relativism adopt positivism and empiricism in order to discredit the radical critique of Islamization of gender relations in Iran. It argues that relativists use the...

Understanding domestic service through oral history and the census: The case of Grand Falls, Newfoundland.
September 22, 2000... This paper highlights some of the methodological, ethical, and interpretive issues that emerged in researching the self-definition of women who migrated from coastal communities to work as domestic servants in a Newfoundland mill town in the...

"Pictures of me? At work?": The case of the declining subject (1).
September 22, 2000... In this article, I reflect on a common, unsettling, yet seldom discussed occurrence in qualitative inquiry: the subject who refuses to be a subject of research. This challenge in my own work caused me to question my research assumptions and...

Investigating women's Antarctic experiences: Some methodological reflections on a qualitative, feminist project.
September 22, 2000... This paper focusses on three methodological issues arising from the research: the impact of the subject position of the researcher in data gathering and interpretation, ethical aspects of the relationships between researcher and researched...

The politics of representation: Doing and writing "Interested" research on midwifery.
September 22, 2000... In this paper, we explore the personal, political and methodological issues raised by doing and writing social science research on the newly regulated profession of midwifery in Ontario. We focus on two key issues: first, the problem of...

Seduction and enlightenment in feminist action research (1).
September 22, 2000... Throughout the research discussed in this paper, I expected the core issues and constraints experienced by the participants to emerge as I attempted to foster a collaborative environment and relationship. I believed that using feminist action...

In/out/side: Positioning the researcher in feminist qualitative research.
September 22, 2000... This article considers issues of "outsiderness" and "insiderness" that arose in the context of a feminist qualitative research project on the experiences of academics, especially women, in faculties of social work, education, pharmacy and...

"The doctor from the university is at the door...": Methodological reflections on research with non-Aboriginal adoptive and foster mothers of Aboriginal children.(Australia)
September 22, 2000... In this essay, I reflect on the experience of interviewing a small group of non-Aboriginal women who adopted or fostered Aboriginal children in Australia, particularly focussing on the difficulties I faced as a white feminist, and considering...

Of discourse, dialogue and dutiful daughters.(feminist anthropology)
September 22, 2000... The article explores some interrelationships between theory, field research and pedagogy with which feminist anthropologists have recently grappled. I write of the tensions generated through my research amongst rural women in France and...

Capturing women: The manipulation of cultural imagery in Canada's prairie west. (Book reviews / comptes rendus).
September 22, 2000... Sarah A. Carter Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997; 248 pp. Sarah Carter's Capturing Women: The Manipulation of Cultural Imagery in Canada's Prairie West probes the relationship between gender and race in the...

Feminist film theory: A reader. (Book reviews / comptes rendus).(includes review of 'Gendering the Nation')
September 22, 2000... Sue Thornham, ed. New York: New York University Press, 1999; 361 pp. Gendering the Nation Kay Armatage, Kass Banning, Brenda Longfellow and Janine Marchessault, eds. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999; 329 pp. A...

Femme, J'Ecris ton nom. guide D'aide a la feminisation des noms de metiers, titres, grades et fonctions. (Book reviews/comptes rendus).
September 22, 2000... Annie Becquer, Bernard Cerquiglini, Nicole Cholewka, Martine Coutier, Josette Frecher et Marie-Josephe Mathieu Preface de Lionel Jospin France, Centre national de la recherche scientifique/Institut national de a langue francaise, 1999,...

Hair matters: Beauty, power, and black women's consciousness. (Book reviews/comptes rendus).
September 22, 2000... Ingrid Banks New York and London: New York University Press, 2000; 197 pp. Ingrid Banks begins Hair Matters: Beauty, Power, and Black Women's Consciousness by revisiting a controversy that occurred in November 1998. A white teacher,...

Making do: Women, family and home in Montreal during the Great Depression. (Book reviews/comptes rendus).
September 22, 2000... Denyse Baillargeon (Yvonne Klein, trans.) Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier Press, 1999; 246 pp. How do families experience hardship? War, famine, environmental disaster and economic downturn have periodically defined life in all...

Mapping T.H.E. (Un)Familiar. (Book reviews/comptes rendus).
September 22, 2000... Margaret Rodgers and Pam Patterson Bowmanville: Visual Arts Centre of Clarington, 1994; 40 pp. MAPPING T.H.E. (UN)FAMILIAR is a singular work. It is the record of a "journey" to artists' studios shared by artists Margaret Rodgers and...

Pluralite et convergences. La recherche feministe dans La francophonie. (Book reviews/comptes rendus).
September 22, 2000... Sous la direction de Huguette Dagenais Montreal, Editions du remue-menage, 1999, 521 p. II est toujours difficile de rendre justice a l'ensemble des auteures qui ont participe a un ouvrage collectif dans l'espace d'un compte rendu. Je ne...

Reclaiming the future: Women's strategies for the 21st century. (Book reviews/comptes rendus).
September 22, 2000... Somer Brodribb, ed. Charlottetown, PEI: gynergy books, 1999; 293 pp. In the past decade, western Christian newspaper headlines, journal issues, edited collections and books have focussed on the "millennium" -- what it will look like...

Women on the defensive: Living through conservative times. (Book reviews/comptes rendus).
September 22, 2000... Sylvia Bashevkin Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1998: 318 pp. Sylvia Bashevkin's Women on the Defensive analyses the impact of Conservative governments on women's demands for equal rights, family law reform, reproductive choice,...

Women's organizing and public policy in Canada and Sweden. (Book reviews/comptes rendus).
September 22, 2000... Linda Briskin and Mona Eliasson, eds. Mantreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999; 408 pp. This important collection -- the fruit of a long collaboration between Swedish and Canadian researchers -- should be read by...

New cites/Points de mire.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... As book review editor of RFR/DRF, various interesting publications and resources come across my desk. In an effort to highlight some of these, I would like to use this space in the journal for short announcements of new publications of interest...

Annual index annuel volume 27.(Bibliography)
September 22, 2000... This index covers all material published, reviewed or abstracted in RFR/DRF volume 27. Material can be found either by author or by subject. The author index includes the name(s) of the author(s), the title of the piece, the type of material,...