1st Edition
A Feminist Approach to Sensitive Research Designing the Clay Embodiment Research Method
1. Introduction – being invited in; 2. The impact of patriarchy on women in Nepal: the vulnerability of sex trafficked women; 3. A feminist approach to sensitive research: the inspiration of critical ethnography and Participatory Action Research; 4. The development and implementation of the Clay Embodiment Research Method (CERM); 5. The ethical considerations of designing a new research method in a complex culture: Australian and Nepal perspectives; 6. The (im)practicalities of using clay in Nepal: mayhem and messiness; 7. The power of the Clay Embodiment Research Method: fun, fast, and dangerous; 8. Moving forward - Nepal and beyond.
Biography
Dr. Tricia Ong is a Lecturer in Career Education and a member of the Deakin Research for Violence Against Women hub at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. This is her first book. She has published on the multiplicity of stigma of sex-trafficked women in Nepal, clay as a medium in three-dimensional body-mapping, and on the impact of patriarchal norms on young, sex-trafficked women in Nepal. She has also written non-academic articles on women’s reproductive health issues.
