Table of Contents
- The Field of Vision
Why Feminists?
Who Am I?
What Is Methodology?
What’s Keeping Sociology from Its Promise?
Knowing Choices
- Seeing through Science: Epistemologies
Positivism: Do the Facts Speak for Themselves?
Radical Social Constructionism: Is Knowledge Illusion?
Critical Realism
Standpoint Theory
Critical Realism or Standpoint Theory?
Critically Seeking Reality
- Authority and Power
Power and Authority, Ideology and Knowledge
The Subjectivist (MIS)Interpretation of Standpoint Epistemology
Social Standpoint Epistemology
- How Feminists Count: Critical Strategies for Quantitative Methods
Problems with Standard Quantitative Methodology
How Feminists Use Quantitative Methods
Conclusion
- Qualitative Shifts: Feminist Strategies in Field Research and Interviewing
Feminist Critiques of Qualitative Methodology
Increasing the Researcher/Researched Connection
Compensating for the Researcher’s Standpoint
Constructing Collaborations
Conclusion
- Whose Questions? Whose Answers?
Asking Critical Questions
To Whom Are We Providing Answers?
- Changing Sociology/ Changing the World
Changing Research
Changing Our Discipline
Changing Ourselves
Bibliography