Author : Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195125214
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (252 download)
Book Synopsis Feminist Approaches to Theory and Methodology by : Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber
Download or read book Feminist Approaches to Theory and Methodology written by Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1999 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is organized around key issues in feminist theory and empirical research. Essay topics include: tensions between disciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledge building; the politics of identity and experience; the complex terrain in which difference is used as a tool of oppression; the gender dynamics of power and resistance; and visual and discursive representations of the female body. The volume concludes with some methodological and political dilemmas feminists encounter as they expose the underlying ideological distortions in existing social policies.