This blog response will have less to do with the readings and more about over-arching questions I have not only about feminist research methodology, but research methodologies in general. As I was reading through the introduction of Rhetorica in Motion, I was struck by some of the bulleted lists the editors refer to: Mary Fonow […]
The introduction of the Addison and McGee text, Feminist Empirical Research: Emerging Perspectives on Qualitative Research, reinforces many of the ideas we’ve read earlier this semester. Familiar themes that I read in the intro include a) acknowledging–and embracing–the notion that empirical research is inherently subjective and thus never neutral b) feminist empirical research is an […]
Action research embodies many of the principles of Feminist research methods, as outlined in “Beyond the Personal: Theorizing a Politics of Location in Composition research” (Kirsch and Ritchie, 1995) and “Epistemology, Feminist Methodology, and the Politics of Method” (found in Naples’s Feminism and Method, 2003). McNiff and Whitehead emphasize that undertaking an action research project […]
I have included all three necessary components, but this is much more informal than a conference proposal; in fact, it looks nothing like a conference proposal. And I think I went over the word count. Here it is: In the first four chapters of Action Research: Principles and Practice, Jean McNiff (with Jack Whitehead) examine […]