Researching Gender

I am a Professor of Women and Gender and, currently, Chair of the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Warwick. Previously I have taught and undertaken research at the University of Warwick in the Centre for Education, Development, Appraisal and Research (CEDAR), the Department of Applied Social Studies and the Department of Continuing Education. I have also worked for the Open University.My research interests have always been strongly feminist. This has led to work on stepfamily life, lifelong learning and higher education and more recently with artisan entrepreneurs. I try to bring a strong conceptual frame to my work and I have a number of publications that have been concerned with social capital, equality, envy and pleasure. My work with artisan entrepreneurs is leading to several streams of analysis. Through the notion of Salivary Identities this includes an exploration of the intra-actions between neuroscientific understandings of pleasure and the culture of jewellery designer making. Issues of distinction, disidentification and economic value are also of concern in further work I am developing. My research interests have also always been focussed on methodological concerns. My most recent work here has been on feminist quantitative methodologies (see Feminism Counts: Quantitative Methods and Researching Gender (2011) Oxford, Routledge (Edited with Rachel Cohen). I have also published on dissemination of qualitative research. I have been particularly interested in what, and who, gets heard and why. Again, I bring a feminist and political lens to this work as I seek to promote an ′informed practice′ in the field of dissemination. Such informed practice takes account of the emotional realm of dissemination, the ethics of representation; and the challenge of ′post′ (postmodernism, postcolonialism, poststructuralism) epistemological thought. I also continue to work with my colleagues Loraine Blaxter and Malcolm Tight. We have just completed the fourth edition of the highly successful text How to Research (2010) Buckingham, Open University Press.

• VOLUME ONE: SITUATED KNOWERS AND FEMINIST STANDPOINT Outsider within - Maria Jaschok and Shui JingjuinSpeaking to Excursions across CulturesStandpoint Theory, Situated Knowledge and the Situated Imagination - Marcel Stoetzler and Nira Yuval-DavisThe Feminist Standpoint - Nancy HarstockDeveloping the Ground for a Specifically Feminist Historical MaterialismLearning from the Outsider within - Patricia Hill CollinsThe Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought Situated Knowledges - Donna HarawayThe Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective Knowers, Knowing, Known - Mary HawkesworthFeminist Theory and Claims of TruthTruth and Method - Susan HekmanFeminist Standpoint Theory Revisited Where Standpoint Stands Now - Catherine HundlebyStanding at the Crossroads of Modernist Thought - Susan Mann and Lori KelleyCollins, Smith and the New Feminist Epistemologies Remaking the Link - Karen Henwood and Nick PidgeonQualitative Research and Feminist Standpoint TheoryFrom the Margins - Dorothy SmithWomen′s Standpoint as a Method of Inquiry in the Social SciencesGender - Joan ScottA Useful Category of Historical AnalysisFeminist Standpoint Theory and the Questions of Social Work Research - Mary SwigonskiFeminist Epistemology and Value - Alison AssiterA Feminist in the Forest - Andrea NightingaleSituated Knowledges and Mixing Methods in Natural Resource Management VOLUME TWO: REPRESENTATION, VOICE AND INTERSECTIONALITY Have We Got a Theory for You! Feminist Theory, Cultural Imperialism and the Demand for ′the Woman′s Voice′? - Maria Lugones and Elizabeth SpelmanUnder Western Eyes - Chandra Talpade MohantyFeminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourses Contradictions of Feminist Methodology - Sherry GorelickThe Complexity of Intersectionality - Leslie McCallIntersectionality as Buzzword - Kathy DavisA Sociology of Science Perspective on What Makes a Feminist Theory SuccessfulShifting Positionalities - Jin HaritawornEmpirical Reflections on a Queer/Trans of Colour Methodology Uncertainty and Method - Martina TißbergerWhiteness, Gender and Psychoanalysis in GermanyResponding to the Imperatives of an Indigenous Agenda - Linda Tuhiwai SmithA Case Study of Mauri Beyond the Politics of Location - Sylvia WalbyThe Power of Argument in a Global EraEnvisioning Participatory Action Research Entremundos - Maria Torre and Jennifer Ayala Feeling Gender Speak - Lorraine NencelIntersubjectivity and Fieldwork Practice with Women Who Prostitute in Lima, Peru Recovering Women′s Histories - Veena PoonachaAn Enquiry into Methodological Questions and ChallengesIdeologies of Access and the Politics of Knowledge Production - Corinne KratzThe Mother of Invention - Liz StanleyNecessity, Writing and RepresentationFinding the Subject Queering the Archive - Danielle ClarkeTaking up Post-Colonial Feminism in the Field - Koushambhi Basu Khan et alWorking through a Method Intersections of Race, Class, Gender and Crime - Amanda Burgess-ProctorFuture Directions for Feminist CriminologyRe-Thinking Intersectionality - Jennifer NashDiscourse, Discourse Everywhere - Carol BacchiSubject ′Agency′ in Feminist Discourse Methodology The (Im)Possibilities of Writing the Self-Writing - Susanne GannonFrench Post-Structural Theory and Auto-EthnographyEmancipatory Research Methodology and Disability - Ardha Danieli and Carol WoodhamsA Critique Insiders and Outsiders - Louise Ryan, Eleonore Kofman and Pauline AaronWorking with Peer Researchers in Researching Muslim Communities Reciting the Self - Bridget ByrneNarrative Representations of the Self in Qualitative Interviews Queer(y)ing the Straight Researcher - Louisa AllenThe Relationship(?) between Researcher Identity and Anti-Normative Knowledge VOLUME THREE: STRONG OBJECTIVITY AND FEMINIST EMPIRICISM Rethinking Standpoint Epistemology - Sandra Harding′What Is Strong Objectivity?′ Tracing the Contours - Kum-Kum BhavananiFeminist Research and Feminist ObjectivitySocial Provisioning as a Starting Point for Feminist Economics - Marilyn PowerMultiplying Subjects and the Diffusion of Power - Helen LonginoMapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics and Violence against Women of Color - Kimberle CrenshawThe Value of Quantitative Methodology for Feminist Research - T.E. JayaratneGender, Methodology and People′s Ways of Knowing - Ann OakleySome Problems with Feminism and the Paradigm Debate in Social Science Feminist Industrial Relations Theory and Quantitative Methodology - Mary CaprioliA Critical AnalysisFeminist Methodology - Mary Margaret Fonow and Judith CookNew Applications in the Academy and Public Policy The Methodological Impact of Feminism - Rachel Cohen, Christina Hughes and Richard LampardA Troubling Issue for Sociology? The Importance of Boundary Objects in Transcultural Interviewing - Vivian LagesenDoing Feminist Conversation Analysis - Celia Kitzinger′Dear Researcher′ - Gayle Letherby and Dawn ZdrodowskiThe Use of Correspondence as a Method within Feminist Qualitative Research Transforming Research Methodologies in EU Life Sciences and Biomedicine - Ineke Klinge and Mineke BoschGender-Sensitive Ways of Doing Research Feminist Empiricism as a Method of Inquiry in Nursing - Patsy PerryDeveloping a Sociological Model for Researching Women′s Self and Social Identities - Anne ByrneFeminist Methodology and Gender Planning Tools - Ineke van HalsemaDivergences and Meeting PointsSnowball Sampling - Kath BrowneUsing Social Networks to Research Non-Heterosexual Women Hindsight, Foresight and Insight - Rachel Thomson and Janet HollandThe Challenges of Longitudinal Qualitative Research Feminist Visualization - Mei-Po KwanRe-Envisioning GIS as a Method in Feminist Geographic Research VOLUME FOUR: RESEARCHING BODIES, EMOTIONS AND NEW MATERIALISMSHand, Brain and Heart - Hilary RoseA Feminist Epistemology for the Natural Sciences Open Forum Imaginary Prohibitions - Sara AhmedSome Preliminary Remarks on the Founding Gestures of the ′New Materialism′Open Secrets - Rosemary HennessyThe Affective Cultures of Organizing on Mexico′s Northern BorderBullying as Intra-Active Process in Neo-Liberal Universities - Katerina Zabrodska et alRe-Imagining the Narratable Subject - Maria TamboukouComing to Our Senses? A Critical Approach to Sensory Methodology - Jennifer Mason and Katherine DaviesMoving Worlds - Turid MarkussenThe Performativity of Affective Engagement Cyborg Geographies - Matthew WilsonTowards Hybrid EpistemologiesDiffractions - Karen BaradDifferences, Contingencies and Entanglements That MatterPicturizing the Scattered Ontologies Of Alzheimer′s Disease - Cecilia Asberg and Jennifer LumTowards a Materialist Feminist Approach to Visual Technoscience Studies Fragments and Interruptions - Radah HegdeSensory Regimes of Violence and the Limits of Feminist EthnographyThe Body, TV Talk and Emotion - Youna KimMethodological Reflections Reflections on the Role of Emotion in Feminist Research - Kristin BlakelyIntimacy in Research - Carolyn SteedmanAccounting for ItIf No Means No, Does Yes Mean Yes? Consenting to Research Intimacies - Julia O′Connell DavidsonLove and Knowledge - Alison JaggarEmotion in Feminist EpistemologyCommentary and Criticism - Imogen Tyler, Rebecca Coleman and Debra FerredayNew Materialisms, Old Humanisms or, Following the Submersible - Stacey AlaimoImagining the Other? Ethical Challenges of Researching and Writing Women′s Embodied Lives - Carla RiceThe Researching Body - Monica RudbergThe Epistemophilic ProjectPost-Millennial Feminist Theory - Maureen McNeilEncounters with Humanism, Materialism, Critique, Nature, Biology and Darwin

In “Researching Gender”, Christina Hughes brings together 79 learned papers on feminist thought about such diverse matters as the experiences of women of colour, sex workers, Internet game players and Social Science researchers, quoting such diverse authorities as Freud, Derrida, Butler and Karl Marx in addition to dozens of contemporary feminist researchers. This daunting tome of 4 volumes, 79 chapters and over 1500 pages discusses feminist positions on various aspects of gender in a deliriously eclectic manner, ranging through several decades and across many cultures and geographical locations as well as hyperspace and quantum theory. Hughes has deliberately avoided ordering the articles by date or topic in order to encourage readers to dip into the four volumes at random and make their own connections.Sylvia Farley, Nurturing Potential