Gender Identity and Research Relationships

Edited by Michael R. M. Ward, Open University, UK

• PART I: POWER DYNAMICS WITHIN RESEARCH RELATIONSHIPSTime to Kill the Witch? Reflections on Power Relationships When Leaving the Field - Sara DelamontPART II: AGE AND GENDERMasculinity, Age and Rapport in Qualitative Research - Thomas Thurnell-Read‘Betweenness’ and the Negotiation of Similarity and Difference in the Interview Setting: Reflections on Interviewing - Grandfathers as a Young, Female Researcher - Anna TarrantPART III: CLASS AND GENDERA Monster Lurking in the Shadows? One Researcher’s Crisis of Representing Class and Gender - Alexandra AllanSimilarity and Familiarity: Reflections on Indigenous Ethnography with Mothers, Daughters and School Teachers on the Margins of Contemporary Wales - Dawn Mannay and Jordon CreaghanStaying Onside on the Inside: Men, Masculinities and the Research Process - Andrew Parker PART IV: GENDER, RACE AND NATIONALITY‘Let Me Know When You Figure Everyone Around Here Out’: Placing Gender in the Ethnographic Process - Edward W. MorrisRelationship-Building in Research: Gendered Identity Construction in Researcher-Participant Interaction - Garth StahlPART V: GENDER AND SEXUALITYIs She One of Us? Intersecting Identities and Social Research - Nathalie Lozano-Neira and Jen MarchbankResearch with Queers, Peers and ‘Elites’: a Queer/Feminist Approach to Participant Demographics - Leslie Sherlock

Nado presents readers with a collection of academic essays and scholarly articles focused on the relative importance or unimportance of gender in the building of research relationships over an academic career. He has organized the contributions that make up the main body of the text in five parts devoted to power dynamics within research relationships; age and gender; class and gender; gender, race, and nationality; and gender and sexuality. The editor is a faculty member of Open University in the UK.