Queering Methodology

This groundbreaking collection explores the complexities of researching the lives of lesbian and queer women. It critically interrogates the concept of 'lesbian', especially as applied to research praxis.

Autorentext

Róisín Ryan-Flood is Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Centre for Intimate and Sexual Citizenship at the University of Essex, UK. Her books include Lesbian Motherhood: Gender, Families and Sexual Citizenship (2009) and Transnationalising Reproduction: Third Party Conception in a Globalised World (Routledge, 2018). She is co-editor of the journal Sexualities.

Alison Rooke is a writer and researcher. After a long association with Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, where she was Senior Lecturer, she became the Director of the social research company Art of Regeneration.

Inhalt

1. Que(e)rying Methodology: Lessons and Dilemmas from Lesbian Lives: An Introduction 2. The Re-Making of Sexual Kinds: Queer Subjects and the Limits of Representation 3. The Lady Vanishes: On Never Knowing, Quite, Who Is a Lesbian 4. Queer in the Field: On Emotions, Temporality, and Performativity in Ethnography 5. Researching Domestic Violence in Same-Sex RelationshipsA Feminist Epistemological Approach to Survey Development 6. Producing Cosmopolitan Sexual Citizens on The L Word 7. Complexities and Complications: Intersections of Class and Sexuality 8. Researching "Race" in Lesbian Space: A Critical Reflection 9. Queering Representation: Ethics and Visibility in Research