Feminist Research in Practice is a supplementary text in sociology for undergraduate and graduate courses in feminist research methods, sociology research methods, and women in sociology. The book offers a total of ten paired chapters examining ten research projects. Invited scholars have contributed two paired chapters: the first is data-driven and includes a description of methods and findings as well as analysis, allowing contributors to highlight their understanding and application of feminist methods and approaches in their work. In the second chapter, contributors offer a close, reflexive examination of the research process described in the empirical chapter, providing further insights into feminist methods and methodologies as these are actually practiced. The projects themselves are diverse in focus and approach, ranging from archival research to institutional ethnography, with both large and small research teams working in diverse communities and using a range of methods. Feminist Research in Practice brings together these two components of feminist scholarship: this book. This inclusion of both empirical research and reflexive practice allows the student and researcher to deepen their own understanding of feminist research as it is practiced: as contributors consider obstacles, interests, and the emergence of new inquiries.

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Feminist Research in Practice is a supplementary text in sociology for undergraduate and graduate courses in feminist research methods, sociology research methods, and women in sociology. The book offers a total of ten paired chapters examining ten research projects. Invited scholars have contributed two paired chapters: the first is data-driven and includes a description of methods and findings as well as analysis, allowing contributors to highlight their understanding and application of feminist methods and approaches in their work. In the second chapter, contributors offer a close, reflexive examination of the research process described in the empirical chapter, providing further insights into feminist methods and methodologies as these are actually practiced. The projects themselves are diverse in focus and approach, ranging from archival research to institutional ethnography, with both large and small research teams working in diverse communities and using a range of methods. Feminist Research in Practice brings together these two components of feminist scholarship: this book. This inclusion of both empirical research and reflexive practice allows the student and researcher to deepen their own understanding of feminist research as it is practiced: as contributors consider obstacles, interests, and the emergence of new inquiries.