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What is the distinctiveness of the feminist method of Social research Comment.

  • UPSC 2023
  • Research Methods and Analysis

Ann Oakley's critique of the orthodox model of the research interview — detached, hierarchical, and modelled on the interviewer as a neutral instrument — is the natural starting point, because it captures the core feminist claim precisely: the distinctiveness lies not in a new technique but in a different politics of the research relationship.

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  • The Positivist Baseline Feminist Method Reacted Against
  • Oakley's Reciprocal Interview: A Different Research Relationship
  • Standpoint Epistemology: Starting from Women's Experience
  • Reflexivity, Voice, and the Purpose of Research
  • Comment: Distinct Method, or Political Application of Existing Technique?

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