240 Pages
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Routledge
244 Pages
by
Routledge
244 Pages
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Routledge
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Fieldwork poses particular dilemmas and contradictions for feminists because of the power relations inherent in the process of gathering data and implicit in the process of representation. Although most feminist scholars are committed to seeking ethical ways to analyze women and gender, these dilemmas are especially acute in fieldwork, where research often entails working with those who are in... Read more
Foreword -- Preface -- Situating Feminist Dilemmas in Fieldwork -- Understanding the Gender System in Rural Turkey: Fieldwork Dilemmas of Conformity and Intervention -- Skinfolk, Not Kinfolk: Comparative Reflections on the Identity of Participant-Observation in Two Field Situations -- Writing Ethnography: Feminist Critical Practice -- Relationality and Ethnographic Subjectivity: Key Informants and the Construction of Personhood in Fieldwork -- Between Bosses and Workers: The Dilemma of a Keen Observer and a Vocal Feminist -- Feminist Insider Dilemmas: Constructing Ethnic Identity with Chicana Informants -- Reflections on Oral History: Research in a Japanese American Community -- The Expeditions of Conjurers: Ethnography, Power, and Pretense -- Situating Locations: The Politics of Self, Identity, and "Other" in Living and Writing the Text -- Afterword: Musings from an Old Gray Wolf
Biography
Diane L. Wolf is associate professor of sociology at the University of California at Davis. Diane L. Wolf is associate professor of sociology at the University of California at Davis. Diane L. Wolf is associate professor of sociology at the University of California at Davis. Diane L. Wolf is associate professor of sociology at the University of California at Davis. Diane L. Wolf is associate professor of sociology at the University of California at Davis. Diane L. Wolf is associate professor of sociology at the University of California at Davis. Diane L. Wolf is associate professor of sociology at the University of California at Davis.
