| Feminist Research Methods: References and Examplars In Winter quarter, 1997, the Center on Women and Public
Policy joined with the Center for Advanced Feminist Studies to present
a six-part workshop series on Feminist Research Methods. Students and
faculty from the University of Minnesota, Hamline University, and the
College of St. Catherine gathered with other interested community members
to create a learning community around shared research methods.
Each two-hour workshop focused on a different research method: Interviewing,
Oral Histories, Ethnographies, Survey Research, Personal Narratives, and
Case Studies. Each workshop featured a guest panel of interdisciplinary
presenters who had experience with the particular research method. They
discussed their work in very concrete, hands-on terms, highlighting why
they chose the method, what mistakes they made that were especially instructive,
what they viewed as the strengths or limitations of the method, how their
research plan changed over time, and how they solved the research problems
they encountered along the way.
This series created a learning community of scholars around shared feminist
methodological concerns and proved to be an informal training ground for
students new to feminist research methods. The Center has compiled a lengthy
bibliography of references and exemplars for each research method:
Interviewing
Aberbach, J., J. Chesney, and B. Rockman, "Exploring
Elite Political Attitudes: Some Methodological Lessons." Political
Methodology 2 (1975): 1-27.
American Association of Social Workers. Interviews: a Study of the Methods
of Analyzing and Recording Social Case Work Interviews. Chicago: The Association,
1992.
Bell, S. "Becoming a Political Woman: The Reconstruction and Interpretation
of Experience Through Stories," in A. Todd and S. Fisher, eds., Gender
and Discourse: The Power of Talk. Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1988.
Brenner, M., J. Brown, and D. Canter. The Research Interview: Uses and
Approaches. London; Orlando: Academic Press, 1985.
Brotherson, M.J. "Interactive Focus Group Interviewing: A Qualitative
Research Method in Early Intervention." Topics in Early Childhood
Special Education 14 (1994): 101-118.
Christensen, B. "Conversation as a Starting Point. The Qualitative
Research Interview." Dansk Sociologic 6 (1995): 100-102.
DeVault, M. L. "Talking and Listening from Women's Standpoint: Feminist
Strategies for Interviewing and Analysis." Social Problems 37 (1990):
96-116.
-------. "Women's Talk: Feminist Strategies for Analyzing Research
Interviews." Women and Language 10 (1987) 33-36.
Dexter, L. A. Elite and Specialized Interviewing. Evanston, IL: Northwestern
University Press, 1970.
Fleming, W. G. "The Interview: A Neglected Issue in Research on
Student Learning." Higher Education 15 (1986): 547-563.
Gilligan, Carol, L.M. Brown. Meeting at the Crossroads: Women's Psychology
and Girls' Development. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992.
Hochschild, J. What's Fair?: American Beliefs about Distributive Justice.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981 (chapters 2 & 6).
Kvale, S. InterViews: An Introduction to Qualitative Research Interviewing.
Thousand Oaks, CA.: Sage Publications, 1996.
Lee, B. H. An Annotated Bibliography of Interviewing in the Social Sciences.
Singapore: Dept. of Political Science, University of Singapore, 1976.
Marshall, C. and G. Rossman. Designing Qualitative Research. 2nd ed.
Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1993.
Matarazzo, J. and A. Wiens. The Interview: Research on its Anatomy and
Structure. Chicago: Aldine-Atherton, 1972.
Matsuoka, A. K. "Collecting Qualitative Data through Interviews
with Ethnic Older People." Canadian Journal on Aging 12 (1993): 216-232.
McCracken, G. The Long Interview. Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage Publications,
1988.
McDowell, E. Interviewing Practices for Technical Writings. Amityville,
NY: Baywood Press, 1991.
Mishler, E. G. Research Interviewing: Context and Narrative. Cambridge:
Harvard University Press, 1986.
Nelson, Jenny. "Phenomenology as Feminist Methodology: Explicating
Interviews." In Doing Research on Women's Communication. Carter,
K. And C. Spitzak, eds. Norwood, NJ: Ablex Publishing, 1989.
Oakley, Ann. "Interviewing Women: A Contradiction In Terms,"
in H. Roberts, ed., Doing Feminist Research. London: Routledge & Keagan
Paul 1981.
Reinharz, Shulamit. "Feminist Interviewing." In Feminist Methods
in Social Research. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Reissman, C. "When Gender is Not Enough: Women Interviewing Women."
Gender & Society 2(1987): 172-207.
Ribbens, Jane. "Interviewing -- An Unnatural Situation?" Women's
Studies International Forum 12 (1989): 579-592.
Rogers, T. "Interviews by Telephone and in Person: Quality of Responses
and Field Performance." The Public Opinion Quarterly 40 (1976): 51-65.
Rosenblatt, P. "Ethics of Qualitative Interviewing with Grieving
Families." Death Studies 19 (1995): 139-56.
Scott, J. Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1985 (pp. 1-27).
Sharpe, P. and J. Mezoff. "Beliefs about Diet and Health: Qualitative
Interviews with Low Income Older Women in the Rural South." Journal
of Women & Aging, 7 (1995): 5-19.
Silverman, D. Interpreting Qualitative Data: Methods for Analyzing Talk,
Text and Interaction. London: Sage Publications, 1993.
Spradley, J. The Ethnographic Interview. New York: Holt, Rinehart &
Winston, 1979.
Taylor, S. and R. Bogdan. Introduction to Qualitative Research Methods:
The Search for Meaning. 2nd ed. New York: Wiley Press, 1991.
Webb, C. "Feminist Methodology in Nursing Research." Journal
of Advanced Nursing 9 (1984): 249-256.
Weber, L., A. Miracle, and T. Skehan. "Interviewing Early Adolescents:
Some Methodological Considerations." Human Organization, 53 (1994):
42-48.
Weiss, R. Learning From Strangers: the Art and Method of Qualitative
Interview Studies. New York: Free Press, 1994.
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Oral history
Allen, B. Ethnohistory: a Researcher's Guide.
Williamsburg, Va.: Dept. of Anthropology, College of William and Mary,
1986.
---------- and W. Lynwood Montell. From Memory to History: Using Oral
Sources in Local Historical Research. Nashville: American Association
for State and Local History, 1981.
Anderson, K., S. Armitage, D. Jack, and J. Wittner. "Beginning Where
We Are: Feminist Methodology in Oral History." Oral History Review
15 (1987): 103-127.
Armitage, S. "Here's to the Women: Western Women Speak Up."
Journal of American History 83 (1996): 551-560.
Brennan, B. "Toward a History of Labor and News Work: the Use of
Oral Sources in Journalism History. Journal of American History 83 (1996):
571-580.
Cahn, S. "Sports Talk: Oral History and its Uses, Problems, and
Possibilities for Sports History." Journal of American History 81
(1994): 594-610.
Caunce, S. Oral History. London and New York: Longman, 1994.
Chapman Lebra, J., ed. Women's Voices in Hawaii. Niwot, Colo.: University
Press of Colorado, 1991.
Cohen, D. W. "The Undefining of Oral Tradition." Ethnohistory
36 (1989): 9-18.
Dowd Hall, J. Like a Family: the Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World.
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987.
Duniway, David K., and Willa Braun, eds. Oral History: An Anthology.
Nashville: American Association for State and Local History, 1984.
Enyon, B. "Cast upon the Shore: Oral History and New Scholarship
on the Movements of the 1960s." Journal of American History 83 (1996):
560-571.
Foster, L., and A. Seitz. "An Exploration of Issues Inherent in
the Use of Oral History in the Sociology of Ethnic Relations." Journal
of Intercultural Studies 6 (1985): 5-17.
Frank, G. "Finding the Common Denominator: A Phenomenological Critique
of Life History Method." Ethos 7 (1979): 68-94.
Gallagher, D. Hannah's Daughters: Six Generations of an American Family,
1876-1976. New York: Crowell, 1976.
Geiger, S.N. "Women's Life Histories: Method and Content."
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 11 (1986): 334-351.
Gluck, Sherna Berger, and D. Patai, eds. Women's Words: the Feminist
Practice of Oral History. New York: Routledge, 1991.
---------. "What's So Special About Women? Women's Oral History."
Frontiers 2 (1979): 3-11.
Hansen, A.A. "Oral History and the Japanese American Evacuation."
Journal of American History 82 (1995): 625-640.
Hoopes, J. Oral History: an Introduction for Students. Chapel Hill: University
of North Carolina Press, 1979.
Kline, C. N. "Giving it Back: Creating Conversations to Interpret
Community Oral History." The Oral History Review 23 (1996): 19-40.
Li, P. S. "The Use of Oral History in Studying Elderly Chinese-Canadians."
Canadian Ethnic Studies 17 (1985): 67-77.
Lipsitz, G. A Life in the Struggle: Ivory Perry and The Culture of Opposition.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1995.
Martin, R. Oral History in Social Work: Research, Assessment, and Intervention.
Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1995.
Moss, William W. Oral History Program Manual. New York: Praeger, 1974.
Perks, R. Oral History: an Annotated Bibliography. London: British Library
National Sound Archive, 1990.
-------. Oral History: Talking About the Past. London: Historical Association
in Association with the Oral History Society, 1992.
Reinharz, Shulamit. "Feminist Oral History." In Feminist Methods
in Social Research. New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Ritchie, D. A. Doing Oral History. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1995.
Rosengarten, T. All God's Dangers: the Life of Nate Shaw. New York: Vintage
Books, 1984.
Scott, S. "Drudges, Helpers and Team Players: Oral Historical Accounts
of Farm Work in Appalachian Kentucky. Rural Sociology 61 (1996): 209-227.
Seldon, Anthony, and J. Pappworth. By Word of Mouth: 'Elite' Oral History.
London: Methuen, 1983.
Shaw, B. "Life History Writing in Anthropology: A Methodological
Review." Mankind 12 (1980): 226-233.
Shedden, D.B. Preserving a Newspaper's Past: a Guide to Developing a
Newspaper Oral History Program. St. Petersburg: Poynter Institute for
Media Studies, 1992.
Sitton, T. Oral History: a Guide for Teachers (and Others). Austin: University
of Texas Press, 1983.
Tansey, T. "Telling it Like it Was. The Science of Storytelling."
New Scientist 148 (1995): 49-50.
The Oral History Review. (serial). Fullerton, Calif.: Oral History Association.
1973 - present.
Wiget, A. "Father Juan Greyrobe: Reconstructing Tradition Histories,
and the Reliability and Validity of Uncorroborated Oral Tradition."
Ethnohistory 43 (1996): 459-482.
Yow, V. R. Recording Oral History: a Practical Guide for Social Scientists.
Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1994.
--------. "Ethics and Interpersonal Relationships in Oral History
Research." The Oral History Review 22 (1995): 51-67.
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Ethnography
Ardener, S. Perceiving Women. New York: Wiley
Press, 1975.
Bell, D., P. Caplan, and W.J. Karim, eds. Gendered Fields: Women, Men,
and Ethnography. New York: Routledge, 1993.
Brown, K. McCarthy. "On Feminist Methodology." Journal of Feminist
Studies in Religion 1 (1985): 76-79.
Buechler, H. "The Social Position of an Ethnographer in the Field,"
in F. Henry and S. Saberwal (eds)., Stress and Response in Fieldwork.
New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1969.
Burawoy, M., A. Burton, A. Arnett Ferguson, K. Fox, J. Gamson, N. Gartrell,
L. Hurst, C. Kurzman, L. Salzinger, J. Schiffman, and S. Ui, eds. Ethnography
Unbound: Power & Resistance in the Modern Metropolis. Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1991.
Burgess, R., ed. Field Research: A Sourcebook and Field Manual. New York:
Routledge Press, 1991.
DiIorio, J. "Feminism, Gender and the Ethnographic Study of Sport."
Arena: The Institute for Sport and Social Analysis 13 (1989): 49-60.
Dobbert, M. L. Ethnographic Research: Theory and Application for Modern
Schools and Societies. New York: Praeger, 1982.
Ellen, R.F., ed. Ethnographic Research: a Guide to General Conduct. Orlando:
Academic Press, 1984.
Ely, M. Doing Qualitative Research: Circles Within Circles. Philadelphia:
Falmer Press, 1991.
Enslin, E. "Beyond Writing: Feminist Practice and the Limitations
of Ethnography." Cultural Anthropology 9 (1994): 537-569.
Golde, Peggy, ed. Women in the Field: Anthropological Experiences. 2nd
ed. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986.
Gurney, J. Neff. "Not One of the Guys: The Female Researcher in
a Male-Dominated Setting." Qualitative Sociology 8 (1985): 42-62.
Hammersley, M., and P. Atkinson. Ethnography: Principles in Practice.
2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 1995.
Harding, Sandra, ed. Feminism & Methodology. Bloomington: Indiana
University Press, 1987.
Jaggar, A. and S. Bordo, eds. Gender/Body/Knowledge: Feminist Reconstructions
of Being and Knowing. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1989.
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. (serial). Newbury Park, Calif.:
Sage Publications. 1987- present.
Katz, C. "Playing the Field: Questions of Fieldwork in Geography."
(Women in the Field: Critical Feminist Methodologies and Theoretical Perspectives).
The Professional Geographer 46 (1994): 67-73.
Kondo, D. Crafting Selves: Power, Gender & Discourses of Identity
in a Japanese Workplace. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991.
Krieger, S. Social Science & The Self: Personal Essays on an Art
Form. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1991.
Lawless, E. Holy Women, Wholly Women: Sharing Ministries of Wholeness
Through Life Stories and Reciprocal Ethnography. Philadelphia: University
of Pennsylvania Press, 1993.
Lofland, J., and L. Lofland. Analyzing Social Settings: A Guide to Qualitative
Observation & Analysis. 2nd ed. Belmont: Wadsworth Publishing Company,
1984.
MacCormack, P., ed. Ethnography of Fertility and Birth. 2nd. ed. Prospect
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Miller, S.M. "The Participant Observer and Over-Rapport." American
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Pierce, J. Gender Trials: Emotional Lives in Contemporary Law Firms.
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Publications, 1986.
Reinharz, Shulamit. "Feminist Ethnography." In Feminist Methods
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Stacey, J. "Can There Be a Feminist Ethnography?" Women's Studies
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Survey research
Alreck, P. and R. Settle. The Survey Research
Handbook. 2nd ed. Chicago: Irwin, 1995.
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--------. Improving Survey Questions: Design and Evaluation. Thousand
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Personal narratives
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--------. "Autobiography and Class Formation in Nineteenth Century
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Acker, J., et al. "Objectivity and Truth: Problems
in Doing Feminist Research." Women's Studies International Forum
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Cameron, Deborah, et al., eds. Researching Language: Issues of Power
and Method. London, New York: Routledge, 1992.
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Research." The Professional Geographer 46.2 (1994): 80-89.
Fine, Michelle. "Passion, Politics, and Power: Feminist Research."
In Disruptive Voices: the Possibilities of Feminist Research. Ann Arbor
: University of Michigan Press, 1992.
McCarl Nielsen, Joyce, ed. Feminist Research Methods: Exemplary Readings
in the Social Sciences. Denver: Westview Press. 1990.
McRobbie, A. "The Politics of Feminist Research: Between Talk, Text
& Action." Feminist Review 12 (1983): 46-58.
Reinharz, Shulamit. Feminist Methods in Social Research. New York; Oxford:
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Observation and Experiential Analysis. New Brunswick: Transaction Books,
1984.
"Feminist Epistemologies and Research Methods: A Bibliography."
This bibliography is maintained by the Women's Studies list serve. It
has seven sections: Feminist Critiques of Science, Feminist Critiques
of Social science, Feminist Epistemologies, Feminist Research Methods
and Methodologies, Feminism and Ethnography, Feminist Interview Methods,
and Quantitative Methods in Feminist Research. To get this 400-line file,
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