Researching Women's Lives From A Feminist Perspective

Chapter 3

Practising Feminist Research: The ntersection of Gender and ‘Race’ in he Research Process

Ann Phoenix

 

Introduction

An increasing number of feminists have written about their experiences of conducting research and what it means to be a feminist researcher.¹ The complex relationships to be negotiated at each stage of the research process (obtaining funding; negotiating access to respondents; data collecting; analysis and dissemination) are now more clearly recognized than formerly. However, there are still a number of themes that have been neglected. For example, most published material has discussed projects over which the researcher had some control rather than the more common experience where the feminist researcher has no control ...