Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process Feminist reflections

• Main Authors: Róisín Ryan-Flood, Rosalind Gill
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: London Routledge 2010; Taylor and Francis; Taylor & Francis Group
• Edition: 1
• Series: Transformations
• Subjects: Confidential communications; Feminism; Feminism > Research; Feminist Psychology; Feminist Theory; Human Geography - Research Methods and Techniques; Judgment; Political Research Methods; Psychological Methods & Statistics; Research Methods - Soc. Policy; Social & Cultural Anthropology; Social science research; Social sciences; Social sciences > Research; Social sciences > Research > Moral and ethical aspects; Social sciences > Research > Philosophy; Subjectivity; VIP Area; Real World; Troubled Subject Position; Language Brokers; Young Man; south; Sex Tourist; South Asian Women; Research Encounters; Obesity Surgery; Follow; encounters; South Asian Women's Experiences; Door Staff; Reality Tv Celebrity; intertextual; Home Town; participants; Violated; Face To Face; Intertextual Understandings; USA; Feminist Research Praxis; social; researchers; Head Doorman; asian; Tightrope; Chronic; scientists; Wo; VIP; feminist; women; Major UK City

Feminist research is informed by a history of breaking silences, of demanding that women's voices be heard, recorded and included in wider intellectual genealogies and histories. This has led to an emphasis on voice and speaking out in the research endeavour. Moments of secrecy and silence are...

Table of Contents:

• Index
• Cover -- Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- PART I Interpreting and theorising silence -- 1 Choosing silence: rethinking voice, agency and women's empowerment -- 2 Forms of knowing and un-knowing: secrets about society, sexuality and God in Northern Kenya -- 3 Unknowable secrets and golden silence: reflexivity and research on sex tourism -- 4 The desire to talk and sex/gender-related silences in interviews with male heterosexual clients of prostitutes -- 5 Silencing accounts of silenced sexualities -- PART II The unspoken in the research process -- 6 Silencing differences: the 'unspoken' dimensions of 'speaking for others' -- 7 Not telling it how it is: secrets and silences of a critical feminist researcher -- 8 Critiquing thinness and wanting to be thin -- 9 Inside 'doorwork': gendering the security gaze -- 10 Raising the curtain on survey work -- PART III Silence, secrecy and telling research stories -- 11 Avoiding the 'R-word': racism in feminist collectives -- 12 Suppressing intertextual understandings: negotiating interviews and analysis -- 13 Dirty work: researching women and sexual representation -- 14 Keeping mum: secrecy and silence in research on lesbian parenthood -- 15 Silenced by law: the cautionary tale of women on the line -- PART IV Affective dilemmas -- 16 Animating hatreds: research encounters, organisational secrets, emotional truths -- 17 Breaking the silence: the hidden injuries of the neoliberal university -- 18 Silence and secrets: confidence in research -- 19 Shameful silences: self-protective secrets and theoretical omissions -- 20 Living in the real world? What happens when the media covers feminist research -- 21 The place of secrets, silences and sexualities in the research process