This Handbook presents both a theoretical and practical approach to conducting social science research on, for, and about women. It develops an understanding of feminist research by introducing a range of feminist epistemologies, methodologies, and emergent methods that have had a significant impact on feminist research practice and women's studies scholarship. Contributors to the Second Edition continue to highlight the close link between feminist research and social change and transformation.

The new edition expands the base of scholarship into new areas, with 12 entirely new chapters on topics such as the natural sciences, social work, the health sciences, and environmental studies. It extends discussion of the intersections of race, class, gender, and globalization, as well as transgender, transsexualism and the queering of gender identities. All 22 chapters retained from the first edition are updated with the most current scholarship, including a focus on the role that new technologies play in the feminist research process.

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Feminist Empiricism

Feminist Empiricism

Catherine E.Hundleby

Feminist empiricism draws in various ways on the philosophical tradition of empiricism, which can be defined as epistemology that gives primary importance to knowledge based on experience. Feminist demands for attention to women's experiences suggest that empiricism can be a promising resource for developing a ...

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