Feminist Approaches to Theory and Methodology

This collection is organized around key issues in feminist theory and research: challenging disciplinary obstructions; the politics of identity and experience; negotiating difference; power and resistance; representations of the body; social policy and women's activism. In these essays leading scholars and emerging new critics approach these issues in a global and interdisciplinary context, combining theoretical debate with empirical application. The collection is an ideal text for courses in research methods and in women's studies in a wide range of social science and humanities disciplinees.