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.d e vre s e r sth g ir llA .sn o ita cilb u P d ro fliu G .8 1 0 2 © th g iryp o C Leavy, Patricia, and Anne Harris. Contemporary Feminist Research from Theory to Practice, Guilford Publications, 2018. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nyulibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5432900. Created from nyulibrary-ebooks on 2020-09-05 12:41:20. CONTEMPORARY FEMINIST RESEARCH FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .sn o ita cilb u P d ro fliu G .8 1 0 2 © th g iryp o C Leavy, Patricia, and Anne Harris. Contemporary Feminist Research from Theory to Practice, Guilford Publications, 2018. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nyulibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5432900. Created from nyulibrary-ebooks on 2020-09-05 12:41:51. Also Available Handbook of Arts-Based Research Edited by Patricia Leavy Handbook of Emergent Methods Edited by Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber and Patricia Leavy Method Meets Art, Second Edition: Arts-Based Research Practice Patricia Leavy Research Design: Quantitative, Qualitative, Mixed Methods, Arts-Based, and Community-Based Participatory Research Approaches .d evre Patricia Leavy se r sth g ir llA .sn o ita cilb u P d ro fliu G .8 1 0 2 © th g iryp o C Leavy, Patricia, and Anne Harris. Contemporary Feminist Research from Theory to Practice, Guilford Publications, 2018. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nyulibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5432900. Created from nyulibrary-ebooks on 2020-09-05 12:41:51. Contemporary Feminist Research from Theory to Practice Patricia Leavy Anne Harris .d e vre se r sth g ir llA .sn o ita cilb u P d ro fliu G .8 1 0 2 © th g iryp o C THE GUILFORD PRESS New York London Leavy, Patricia, and Anne Harris. Contemporary Feminist Research from Theory to Practice, Guilford Publications, 2018. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nyulibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5432900. Created from nyulibrary-ebooks on 2020-09-05 12:41:51. To all those around the globe who are standing up for gender equality through speaking out, marching, activism, art, and scholarship; and to those committed to microactivism in their homes, workplaces, and everyday lives—we salute you Copyright © 2019 The Guilford Press A Division of Guilford Publications, Inc. 370 Seventh Avenue, Suite 1200, New York, NY 10001 www.guilford.com All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, .d photocopying, microfilming, recording, or otherwise, without written permission evre from the publisher. se r sth Printed in the United States of America g ir llA .sn This book is printed on acid-free paper. o itacilb Last digit is print number: 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 u P dro Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available fliu from the publisher. G .8 1 0 ISBN 978-1-4625-2025-1 (paperback) 2 © th ISBN 978-1-4625-3628-3 (hardcover) g iryp o C Leavy, Patricia, and Anne Harris. Contemporary Feminist Research from Theory to Practice, Guilford Publications, 2018. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nyulibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5432900. Created from nyulibrary-ebooks on 2020-09-05 12:41:51. Preface Feminist research is not like many other forms of research, because it holds explicit social commitments at the forefront. Beginning with the status of girls and women, but not ending there, feminism is an engaged human rights position that seeks to expose and remedy gender inequities. Feminist research suggests ways forward to a better world in which critical scholar- ship plays an active role in inspiring and enacting social change. We use the term “feminism” as opposed to a general “human rights” label to acknowl- edge, as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie does, “the specific and particular problem of gender” and how female humans are targeted by these inequali- .de ties (2015, p. 42). However, working from an intersectional approach cou- vre se pled with a nonbinary understanding of gender, we provide a layered view r sth of the problem of “gender” as it is lived by diverse individuals and groups. g ir llA Contemporary Feminist Research from Theory to Practice offers a .sno comprehensive inter- and transdisciplinary introduction to contemporary ita cilb feminisms. This book provides a historical context for understanding femi- u P d nist research, presents the major theories feminist researchers develop and ro fliu use globally, describes methods for conducting research and practical strat- G .8 egies for “doing” feminist research, and provides information on writing 1 0 2 and publishing feminist research in various forms, and on incorporating © th social activism and advocacy into feminist practice. The literature on fem- g iryp inist research practice often focuses narrowly on traditional approaches o C to research and Western perspectives. We sought to offer a different kind of text, one that highlights the multiperspectival and socially constructed v Leavy, Patricia, and Anne Harris. Contemporary Feminist Research from Theory to Practice, Guilford Publications, 2018. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nyulibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5432900. Created from nyulibrary-ebooks on 2020-09-05 12:41:51. vi Preface nature of contemporary feminist research, including global feminisms, transnational collaboration, digital media and virtual embodiment, and feminist “publics.” Our perspective is grounded in critical scholarship, intersectionality, and a nonbinary understanding of gender. This book understands con- temporary feminist research as that which addresses inequality with an agenda for social change. We believe that critical scholarship—that which problematizes social conditions as they are—can only be addressed inter- sectionally, or, in other words, in the interwoven ways that it gets played out in real life. Not only are we in bodies that are gendered, but, rather, we simultaneously occupy race, ethnicity, social class, sexuality, and other positionalities. In order to be wide awake as feminist researchers, we must not only ask about gender, but we must also ask: What about race? What about sexuality? What about ableism? What about class (socioeconomic) inequity? How do these conditions and positions work together or against one another? This book asks you to think about doing research that is embedded in and accountable to “real life,” and making real life better— not just for women, but for all—and to realize that these are not separate projects but interconnected ones. Further, contemporary feminist research is concerned not only with the conditions of girls and women, but with all gender-based inequities, and today particularly with the highly visible but contested terrain of trans- gender and noncisgender human rights and the ways in which changing definitions of gender impact all genders and all who fall outside the “gender spectrum” or somewhere fluid within it. In this vein, we are troubling the common he/she binary and instead using he/she/they in this text. .d e vrese Why This Book Is Needed r sth g ir llA We wrote this book because we are both committed to the promise and .sno practice of contemporary, inclusive feminist research. We also believe ita cilb that it’s difficult to find a comprehensive overview and guide to feminist u P d research. Many books focus either on theory or methods, or on particular ro fliu genres of feminist research. In writing this book, we hope to offer a robust G .8 introduction to feminist research that inspires you to delve further into top- 1 0 2 ics of interest. We also wrote this book because as the world has changed © th rapidly, so too have the academic and social/cultural landscapes. In turn, g iryp feminisms have changed. From increasingly nonbinary understandings of o C gender to the digital landscape that increasingly impacts our personal and research lives, great changes have occurred. We felt a feminist text that Leavy, Patricia, and Anne Harris. Contemporary Feminist Research from Theory to Practice, Guilford Publications, 2018. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nyulibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5432900. Created from nyulibrary-ebooks on 2020-09-05 12:41:51. Preface vii pays homage to the past, but is firmly grounded in contemporary concerns and practices, was needed. Special Features of This Book Key Terms Highlighted with Call‑Out Bubbles Throughout this book, we have identified a number of key terms as central to contemporary feminist research. Throughout this text when there are examples of a specific term, we provide call-out bubbles highlighting the term. We review the significance some of these highlighted terms in Chap- ter 1, but the box below previews the list. Ally Girls and women Cisgender Intersectionality Critical theory/approaches Methodologies Ethics Ontology Feminist digital media Power sharing Feminist epistemologies Reflexivity Gender Representation Genderqueer, gender-creative, gender-fluid Socially constructed (gender) categories Profiles of Prominent Feminist Researchers and Online Video Interviews In Part I, we offer profiles of prominent feminist researchers, addressing .d e vre both their overall body of work and individual approaches, and their more ser sth recent work. Links to short online video interviews with the researchers gir llA themselves accompany the written text. .sn o itacilb Discussion Questions and Activities u P d rofliu Discussion questions and more engaged activities are provided at the end G .8 of every chapter to help you review the chapter material and take it further. 1 0 2 © th giryp Suggested Resources o C While we have attempted to draw on a wide range of feminist voices in this text, we fully recognize that not all voices can be included. Our own Leavy, Patricia, and Anne Harris. Contemporary Feminist Research from Theory to Practice, Guilford Publications, 2018. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nyulibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5432900. Created from nyulibrary-ebooks on 2020-09-05 12:41:51. viii Preface voices, those of two White, Western feminists, have shaped every aspect of this text. Therefore, we’ve included a list of suggested resources at the end of each chapter so that you can invite more authors into your study of feminist research. Audience for the Book This book is appropriate for undergraduate and graduate courses in feminism(s), feminist research, research methods, qualitative inquiry, the- ory, and women’s or gender studies. It may also be of value to individual students and researchers working on a thesis, a dissertation, a research study, or public writing, or those who wish to engage in activism. Organization This book is divided into three parts. Part I focuses on the historical con- text of feminist research and the major theoretical frameworks, analyzed from a global perspective. Part II focuses on research praxis, offering chap- ters on ethics, research with participants (quantitative, qualitative, and community-based), and research with nonliving data in the case of content or media analysis and evaluating programs or other interventions. Part III addresses what happens after research has occurred. We detail the process of writing and publishing feminist research, offering writing instruction for formal academic writing as well as artistic and popular forms. We conclude with a chapter on public scholarship and what it means to be a feminist .de researcher in the world. Chapters can be read out of order, and chapters not vre se of interest can be omitted. r sth g ir llA .sn o ita cilb u P d ro fliu G .8 1 0 2 © th g iryp o C Leavy, Patricia, and Anne Harris. Contemporary Feminist Research from Theory to Practice, Guilford Publications, 2018. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nyulibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5432900. Created from nyulibrary-ebooks on 2020-09-05 12:41:51. Acknowledgments First and foremost, we are grateful to our brilliant publisher and editor, C. Deborah Laughton. Thank you for your unwavering support of this project. We extend a spirited thank you to the entire team at The Guilford Press. In particular, thank you to Seymour Weingarten, Bob Matloff, Katherine Sommer, Jeannie Tang, Judith Grauman, Katherine Lieber, Marian Rob- inson, Lucy Baker, Martin Coleman, Rosalie Wieder, Paul Gordon, Carly DaSilva, Andrea Sargent, Oliver Sharpe, and Robert Sebastiano. Thank you to the leading feminist scholars who graciously shared their .de time and wisdom with us. To be able to sit down with you, face to face, and vre se understand, person to person, once again why this work is so very impor- r sth tant, we thank Professor Cynthia Dillard, Associate Professor Eve Tuck, g ir llA and Professor Aimee Carrillo Rowe, as well as Professor Jack Halberstam, .sno Professor Jessica Ringrose, Dr. Amy Shields Dobson, and others whose ita cilb expertise and passion informed this text but were not captured on video. u P d Thank you to the formerly anonymous reviewers: Stacie Craft DeFreitas, ro fliu Department of Social Sciences, University of Houston– Downtown; Venus G .8 E. Evans- Winters, Department of Educational Administration and Founda- 1 0 2 tions, Illinois State University; and Angela J. Hattery, Women and Gender © th Studies Program, George Mason University. g iryp We also thank Patricia’s awesome assistant, Shalen Lowell, for their o C assistance with locating literature, formatting, and more. And we deeply thank the incomparable Alta Truden, whose brilliance in film editing is ix Leavy, Patricia, and Anne Harris. Contemporary Feminist Research from Theory to Practice, Guilford Publications, 2018. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/nyulibrary-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5432900. Created from nyulibrary-ebooks on 2020-09-05 12:41:51.
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