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of the book are helpful in defining and applying feminist and/or other social science research, However, book becomes dry, repetitive and boring to read chapter by chapter as I was assigned to do, I started reading this book as I was hoping it will enlighten me on the influence of feminist philosophy within political sciences.
It was a mistake, but it did not prevent me from finishing the book, While only the first chapter deals with the inputs of feminism within social and political sciences, the rest of the book is a wonderful guide through the whole research process.
It is basically a text book for aspiring scholars who want to apply feminist research ethics within their work, It takes the reader through the whole process designing, collecting data, analysing it, even publishing and addressing different audiences all with the help of existing examples of published research projects.
I find the chapter on methods most enriching, as it gives an overview of different methods for data collecting and how it can be used in connection to feminist research ethics and what makes it different from nonfeminist approaches.
I believe aspiring PhD students would find this monograph very useful, Not every chapter is relevant to everybody e, g. while I find the subsection on balancing research with "partnership and parenting" irrelevant for my own academic career, I do believe some researchers may be glad to come accross it.
It is okay to skip sections, there is something for everyone, Read Chapter"A Feminist Research Ethic Explained" and Chapter"QuestionDriven Research: Formulating a Good Question",

p.: "In deciding her question, the feministinformed researcher is guided by a feminist research ethic, and the attentiveness to power, to boundaries, to relationships, and our situatedness as researchers that it demands.
is led to consider the importance of research questions whose answers have the potential to make visible the invisible, to give voice to the voiceless, to make central analyses that are marginalized or neglected by mainstream lines of inquiry, and to bring to our attention processes and institutions that have been absent in the mainstream of our disciplines.
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p.: "Our research should be driven by important and insteresting questions and puzzles rather than by particular methods or paradigmatic concerns specific to a paritcular theoretical perspective or discipline.
. . 'the great questions of the day', . . Our feminist attentiveness to power and to marginalization is provoked here, "

p.: "We should consciously seek to make the assumptions behind our research questions explicit, . . Research projects are always constituted through economic, social, cultural, and political values, including gender values, The point is to make the acknolwedgement of these value a productive site for probing and further clarifying our research questions.
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p.: "It is the use of a feminist research ethic to guide it that makes gender analysis FEMINIST rather than vice versa.
But gender analysis opens up a whole landscape of new reserach questions as well as giving us tools to rethink old research questions.
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p.: "A good study has one clear

puzzle or quesiton that explores one limited concept or thesis, This puzzle may have one or two more related questions, "

p.: Different types of research questions
p,: "If your instinct leads you to a problem far from the mainstream, follow it, "
p.: Checklist for a good question

p,: "Gender analysis may also be used to generate 'how' research questions that seek to gain a particular vantage point on the nature of social and political institutions and are often exploerd with a postpositivist epistemology standpoint, postcolonial, postmodern and ethnographic or indepth single case study research designs.
'How' questions that address how the political reality of male dominance is produced and reproduced may include asking how gender constructs are deployed in different contexts, how gender operates under specific historical conditions, and how therefore, to transform how gendered works at all levels.
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p.: "How i. e. , through what processes are changing gender relations shaping and being shaped, . . And second, do these new forms, . . open up spaces for women's empowerment and feminist politics" gtgt Are there spaces opened up by/through A

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: "The question should be openly but not naively asked such that the researcher can maintain a selfreflexive stance given the likelihood that the quesiton will change its form as it pursued through research.
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p.: "Therefore, your research paper or proposal will need a 'situating the research' section in which you:
what is known about the puzzle in the field
Assess the strengths and weaknesses of the literature that exists on the topic in a class context, your course instructor may expect you to focus on the literature in the syllabus, or at least to include it in your broader survey and
Identify the significance of gaps in your field's knowledge such that your research should be conducted and funded.
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p.: "One strategy for situating your research question is to think of it on a continuum between problemsolving and critical theory approaches.
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p.: "We should be looking not to fill niches in an existing mainstream field but to open up horizons, " This extremely innovative interdisciplinary text guides the reader through the research process from research design through to analysis and presentation while at the same time introducing the range of debates, challenges and tools that feminists use in their research around the world.
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