As feminist scholarship has developed, it has become increasingly evident that the practice of feminist research is interdisciplinary. Yet there are very few books that address the methodological and theoretical issues raised in doing feminist research from an interdisciplinary standpoint. Feminist Perspectives on Social Research addresses this need by focusing on the theory and research methods that feminist scholars use to study women and gender from the humanities and social and behavioural science perspectives. Contents: Part 1: Methods, Methodology, Epistemology Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber, Patricia Leavy, and Michelle L. Yaiser: Feminist Approaches to Research as a Process: Reconceptualizing Epistemology, Methodology and Method Dorothy Smith: Women's Perspectives as Radical Critique of Sociology Sandra Harding: Rethinking Standpoint Epistemology: What Is Strong Objectivity? Kum-Kum Bhavnani: Tracing the Contours: Feminist Research and Feminist Objectivity Joey Sprague and Diane Kobrynowicz: A Feminist Epistemology Part 2: Strategies on Issues of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber and Michelle L. Yaiser: Difference Matters: Studying Across Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality Lynn Weber: A Conceptual Framework for Understanding Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality Diane Reay: Rethinking Social Class: Qualitative Perspectives on Class and Gender Shirley Hill and Joey Sprague: Parenting in Black and White Families: The Interaction of Gender with Race and Class Sandra Harding: Can Men Be Subjects of Feminist Thought? Kathleen Weston: Fieldwork in Lesbian and Gay Communities Part 3: Applications and Methods Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber, Denise Leckenby, and Michelle L. Yaiser: How Feminists Practice Social Research Marjorie DeVault: Talking and Listening from Women's Standpoint: Feminist Strategies for Interviewing and Analysis Kristin Anderson and Debra Umberson: Gendering Violence: Masculinity and Power in Men's Accounts of Domestic Violence Sue Wilkinson: Focus Groups: A Feminist Method Jocelyn Hollander: Vulnerability and Dangerousness: The Construction of Gender through Conversation about Violence Janet Saltzman Chafetz: Some Thoughts by an 'Unrepentant Positivist' Who Considers Herself a Feminist Nonetheless Maxine Thompson and Verna Keith: The Blacker the Berry: Gender, Skin Tone, Self-Esteem, and Self-Efficacy Laura Madson: Inferences Regarding the Personality Traits and Sexual Orientaton of Physically Androgynous People Nancy Naples: The Outsider Phenomenon Mimi Schippers: The Social Organization of Sexuality and Gender in Alternative Hard Rock: An Analysis of Intersectionality Susan Geiger: What's So Feminist About Women's Oral History? Antoinette Errante: But Sometimes You're Not Part of the Story: Oral Histories and Ways of Remembering and Telling Index