Feminist research

[foreverastudent]

Hi,

not sure whether I should put this here or in the student section...

Has anyone done any feminist research? I am about to embark upon a piece of feminist social psychological research and would appreciate any tips from any feminist academics out there.

Also is there anyone who hasn't done any research themselves but has read some good feminist research, who could recommend any good articles for me?

Ta

What's your research topic FAS?

I have yet to decide, just something within social psychology, perhaps attitudes.

FAS, maybe worth reposting in Student Parents - I think madwomanintheattic would have some good advice to offer

I like this article which discusses female genital slang:
findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2372/is_2_38/ai_79439405/?tag=content;col1

I personally, find it very interesting how our language marginalises women for example the definition of vagina in the dictionary is as a vessel, a space, a passage which is ridiculous as it just as much an organ as the penis is. It does way more than receive a penis.
Slang tends to reflect this idea as a recepticle.

There's a useful list of university departments, research centres and journals on frankfrankly's blog here (scroll down to see the links on the right hand side)

I'll try to do that link again:
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I am an academic who is a feminist and a social scientist but i have not done anything explicity feminist in my research. What level are you? is this an u-g project, some independent research or the start of a Phd? What analytical tools do you have (can you use data for example?)

It is an undergraduate 4000 word project where I have to do a qualitative study (2 x 30 interviews) from either the phenomenological or discourse analysis perspective.

can't offer much advice as this is so not my field (old fashioned postivist thats me). Could you film a toddler playing and then tell one group that it is a boy, the other group that it is a girl and compare the results of the inteviews.

If I were you, i'd find an area that interested me, (so for me it would be about slang language), find a kind of niche or an area you could expand upon and do your interviews in a way that was suited best (in my case it would probably be discursive analysis).

What do you mean 2x30 interviews?

Took that to mean 2 x 30 minute interviews - 60 interviews would take one hell of a long time to transcribe

Interesting idea re: filming a toddler

Aaaah, that makes much more sense!

You need to have a research question before starting to plan it though!

hi
I am in this field too, there are loads of feminist social psychologists. Can you narrow down your area of interest a bit? Attitudes to what?

I would definitely recommend DA over IPA if you are doing feminist research, DA explicitly looks at power, gender, how ways of talking constrain or change behaviour, and it has a strong feminist tradition. There are loads of articles on feminist DA, I could recommend some but there are so many that you probably need some idea of your research area first.

IPA officially avoids ideology and focuses on individual stories or experiences, the standard IPA stance is to NOT relate this explicitly to wider social issues. You can use IPA as a feminist but I'd say you're working against the grain there, DA is a more obvious choice.

I personally, find it very interesting how our language marginalises women for example the definition of vagina in the dictionary is as a vessel, a space, a passage which is ridiculous as it just as much an organ as the penis is

I found this which is interesting:-

While, in ancient times, the vagina was often considered equivalent (homologous) to the penis, with anatomists Galen (129 AD – 200 AD) and Vesalius (1514–1564) regarding the organs as structurally the same except for the vagina being inverted, anatomical studies over latter centuries showed the clitoris to be the penile equivalent.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagina

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