Qualitative Research: An Introduction to Methods and Designs

Key Ideas

• Feminist research seeks to create new knowledge, challenge beliefs and practices that limit human potential, explore the lives of women and other marginalized groups, and facilitate social critique and action to reduce inequities.
• Feminist approaches to research emerged during the 1960s as part of a vibrant period of women's activism and critical questioning in academia.
• Feminist methodologists have offered critiques of traditional approaches to research and have developed innovative approaches to investigate, analyze, and represent the complexity of the social world.
• Feminist researchers argue that all research approaches reflect and strengthen certain agendas and knowledge claims over others and are therefore political by nature. ...