You Can't Cross a River Without Getting Wet
A Feminist Standpoint on the Dilemmas of Cross-Cultural Research
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2385060 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Janet Hinson Shope (Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 163-184 |
| Publication date | 2006-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1077800405282792 |
| OpenAlex | W2072952517 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 22 |
| References cited | 19 |
This article discusses the knotty methodological and epistemological issues raised while doing research in rural communities in South Africa. Using entries from the author's field journal and conversations with rural Black women, this article explores the tensions between theory and experience, insiders and outsiders, and writing and orality. Rather than reconciling these tensions, feminist method resides amid the contradictions, wedged in the methodological and epistemological between spaces that open up the possibility of multiple interpretations and dialogue
Epistemology · Field (mathematics · Literacy · Orality · Pedagogy · Postcolonialism (international relations · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Philosophy · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · South African History and Culture
Transnational Feminist Crossings
Transnational Feminist Crossings
A Reflexive Lens
Occupational Meanings of Food Preparation for Goan Canadian Women
Exploring the caring of fathers in low-income, rural communities in South Africa
Exploring the Use of Mobile Technology in Qualitative Inquiry in Africa
Lobola is here to stay’
Some People Drink as the Body Should Feel a Little Ease’
Tough Teens
Man Talk
Universities, dependency and the market
It starts with once upon a time
The value of narrative in understanding Mongolian and Australian women's journeys of survival recovery and remaking of self, through and beyond domestic violence
Researching experiences of African refugee youth in high-income countries
Professional Development on Digital Literacy and Transformative Teaching in a Low‐Income Country
Rambling with(in) the Wairarapa
You Know What I Mean
Traversés féministes transnationales
Food is culture, but it's also power
Working with teams of 'insiders
But You Are Also Ghanaian, You Should Know
Food for Thought, Thought for Food
Storylines
Death Without Weeping
Six Communication and the Other
Feminist Dilemmas in Fieldwork
Writing the Social
Women Writing for Their Rights
Multilingual Voices
Focus Groups
Writing contradictions Feminist Research and Feminist Writing
Writing contradictions
The Everyday World as Problematic
Feminism and Methodology
Reflexivity, feminism and difference
Under Western Eyes
What's in the Name 'Coloured
| Citations per year | 1.1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2022 (17) |
| Highly cited | No |