Feminist Research Practice

Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber is Professor of Sociology at Boston College. She is founder and director of The National Association for Women in Catholic Higher Education. She is coeditor of several books, including Feminist Perspectives on Social Research (Oxford University Press, 2004); Approaches to Qualitative Research (Oxford University Press, 2004); Women in Catholic Higher Education: Border Work, Living Experiences and Social Justice ( Lexington, 2003); and Feminist Approaches to Theory and Methodology (Oxford University Press, 1999). She is coauthor of The Practice of Qualitative Research ( Sage Publication, 2006); Emergent Methods in Social Research (Sage Publications , 2006); Working Women in America:Split Dreams ( Oxford University Press, 2005) . She is the author of Am I Thin Enough Yet? ( Oxford University Press, 1996) Her book, The Cult of Thinness, is forthcoming with the Oxford University Press. She has written numerous articles in the fields of body image, qualitative methods, and computer approaches to qualitative data analysis. She is co-developer of HyperRESEARCH, (researchware.com) a computer software program for qualitative data analysis.

Feminist Research Practice: A Primer provides a unique, hands-on approach to exploring a range of feminist perspectives of the research process in order to bridge the divide between theory and research methods. Editors Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber and Patricia Lina Leavy engage students with a clear and concise writing style and in-depth examples of a range of research methods from ethnography, oral history, focus groups, and content analysis to interviewing and survey research.

AcknowledgmentsPrefaceAbout the AuthorsAbout the Chapter ContributorsAbout the Behind-the-Scenes Contributors1. An Invitation to Feminist Research, by Abigail Brooks and Sharlene Nagy Hesse-BiberPart I: Feminist Approaches to Epistemology and Theory2. Feminist Empiricism: Challenging Gender Bias and "Setting the Record Straight," by Denise Leckenby3. Feminist Standpoint Epistemology: Building Knowledge and Empowerment Through Women¿s Lived Experience, by Abigail Brooks4. Feminist Postmodernism and Poststructuralism, by Patricia Lina LeavyPart II: Feminist Approaches to Research Methods and Methodology5. The Practice of Feminist In-Depth Interviewing, by Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber6. The Practice of Feminist Oral History and Focus Group Interviews, by Patricia Lina Leavy7. The Feminist Practice of Ethnography, by Elana D. Buch and Karen M. Staller8. The Feminist Practice of Content Analysis, by Patricia Lina Leavy9. Feminist Approaches to Mixed-Methods Research, by Denise Leckenby and Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber10. Feminist Survey Research, by Kathi Miner-Rubino and Toby Epstein Jayaratne - Antoinette Errante, Lisa Cosgrove, Dana Jack Crowley, Diana E. H. Russel, Kristin L. Anderson, Maxine Birch, Sandra Harding, Suheyla Kirca Schroeder, Lisa Dodson, Patti Lather, Deborah Piatelli, Judith Preissle, Leah SchmalzbauerPart III: Feminist Praxis11. Putting It Together: Feminist Research Praxis, by Sharlene Nagy Hesse-BiberIndex