Intersectional Feminist Research Methodologies: Applications in the Social Sciences and Humanities is a multi-disciplinary volume in which emerging and established scholars present new feminist research methods and re-evaluate existing approaches.
This collection examines how both new and established feminist methods address intersecting identities and structures of inequality including gender, race, sexuality, and class. Each chapter provides a case study of a methodology or methodologies that have been adopted, developed, or adapted within the author's field – including sociology, criminology, political science, history, literature, and performance studies. The volume articulates the importance of knowledge production that arises from the situated and lived experiences of individuals, groups, and communities. It discusses how we survive as feminists in today’s neoliberal universities, and includes research on trans and nonbinary people, Indonesian history and the #MeToo movement, world-literature from the Philippines, memory work, and crime on the London transport network. The contributors engage with intersectionality in different ways but collectively they demonstrate the pervasiveness of intersectional thinking and practice in feminist scholarship today.
Intersectional Feminist Research Methodologies will be of value to both undergraduate and graduate students conducting research, as well as doctoral researchers and more established feminist researchers.
Table of Contents:
Introduction 1 Living and researching embodied intersectionality: Heidi Safia Mirza in conversation with Line Nyhagen 2 The play’s the thing: Using creative methods to place trans and queer knowledge-making centre stage
3 Decolonising feminism and feminist decolonialism: The case of the #MeToo movement in Indonesia 4 Understanding sexual harassment on public transport through feminist epistemologies and intersectional rhythmanalysis 5 On the creation of new ecological writing: Alycia Pirmohamed in conversation with Jennifer Cooke 6 Memory work as a collaborative intersectional feminist research method 7 Aging, care, and women’s work: A world-systems feminist approach to Filipina literature 8 Becoming a strongwoman: An auto/ethnographic study of the pursuit of strength, power, and gender aesthetics 9 The archival is personal is political: Historiography, the archive, and feminist research methods 10 Conducting survey research while a feminist: Taking intersectional and decolonial approaches
11 Close reading: Critical feminist method and pedagogical process 12 Cultivating a ‘feminist reflexive sensibility’ in social research: A re-evaluation of reflexivity and intersectionality in the neoliberal academy 13 Location, contradiction, ambivalence: Feminist methodologies within and beyond the university
About the Author :
Jennifer Cooke is Reader in Contemporary Literature and Theory at Loughborough University, UK.
Line Nyhagen is Professor of Sociology at Loughborough University, UK, and Adjunct Professor at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway.
