1st Edition

Queering Methodology Lessons and Dilemmas from Lesbian Lives

Edited By Róisín Ryan-Flood, Alison Rooke Copyright 2023
124 Pages
by Routledge

124 Pages
by Routledge

124 Pages
by Routledge

This groundbreaking collection explores the complexities of researching the lives of lesbian and queer women. It critically interrogates the concept of ‘lesbian’, especially as applied to research praxis. Who or what is a ‘lesbian’ and why does this category matter? How is research shaped by such categorisations and why? What does it mean for research that identities can be fluid and changing?... Read more

1. Que(e)rying Methodology: Lessons and Dilemmas from Lesbian Lives: An Introduction 

Róisín Ryan-Flood and Alison Rooke 

2. The Re-Making of Sexual Kinds: Queer Subjects and the Limits of Representation 

Lisa Blackman 

3. The Lady Vanishes: On Never Knowing, Quite, Who Is a Lesbian 

Kath Weston 

4. Queer in the Field: On Emotions, Temporality, and Performativity in Ethnography 

Alison Rooke 

5. Researching Domestic Violence in Same-Sex Relationships—A Feminist Epistemological Approach to Survey Development 

Marianne Hester and Catherine Donovan 

6. Producing Cosmopolitan Sexual Citizens on The L Word 

Kellie Burns and Cristyn Davies 

7. Complexities and Complications: Intersections of Class and Sexuality 

Yvette Taylor 

8. Researching "Race" in Lesbian Space: A Critical Reflection 

Nina Held 

9. Queering Representation: Ethics and Visibility in Research 

Róisín Ryan-Flood 

Biography

Róisín Ryan-Flood is Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Centre for Intimate and Sexual Citizenship at the University of Essex, UK. Her books include Lesbian Motherhood: Gender, Families and Sexual Citizenship (2009) and Transnationalising Reproduction: Third Party Conception in a Globalised World (Routledge, 2018). She is co-editor of the journal Sexualities.

Alison Rooke is a writer and researcher. After a long association with Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, where she was Senior Lecturer, she became the Director of the social research company Art of Regeneration.