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Research about people always makes assumptions about the nature of humans as subjects. This collaboration by a group of feminist researchers looks at subjectivity in relation to researchers, the researched, and audiences, as well as at the connections between subjectivity and knowledge. The authors argue that subjectivity is spatialized in embodied, multiple, and fractured ways, challenging the dominant notions of the rational, 'bounded' subject. A highly original contribution to feminist geography, this book is equally relevant to social science debates about using qualitative methodologies and to ongoing discussions on the ethics of social research.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introducing Subjectivities, Knowledges, and Feminist Geographies
Part 2 Part I: Embodiment, Emotions, and Subjectivities
Chapter 3 "All in the Mind?": Women, Agoraphobia, and the Subject of "Self Help"
Chapter 4 Understanding the Geography of Women's Fear: Toward a Reconceptualization of Fear and Space
Chapter 5 Embodying Agoraphobia: Rethinking Geographies of Women's Fear
Chapter 6 "Once More with Feeling": Putting Emotion into Geographies of Music
Part 7 Part II: Dualisms, Bodies, and Subjectivities
Chapter 8 Borderline Bodies
Chapter 9 Crossing Boundaries: Gendered Spaces and Bodies in Golf
Chapter 10 Talking with the Magician's Apprentice: Fleshing Out GIS Users
Part 11 Part III: Knowledges and Subjectivities
Chapter 12 Performing Art and Identities: Artists of Palestinian Origin in Canada
Chapter 13 Tasteful Visions: The Cultivation of "an" Audience for Art
Chapter 14 "Dependency": New Labour Welfare Reform Policy and the Production of the Passive, Dependent Benefit Claimant
Chapter 15 Hot Gossip: Rumor as Politics
Part 16 Part IV: Inter-Subjectivities in Research Practice
Chapter 17 Whose Voice Is That? Making Space for Subjectivities in Interviews
Chapter 18 Research Ethics in Practice
Chapter 19 Telling Stories, Making Selves
Chapter 20 Situated Ethics and Feminist Ethnography in a West-of-Scotland Hospice
Chapter 21 Conclusion: Boundaries, Situations, Relations
Chapter 22 References

Product details

Published 23 Jul 2002
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 312
ISBN 9780742515628
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Dimensions 230 x 146 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

About the contributors

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Hannah Avis

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Ruth Bankey

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Amanda Bingley

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Liz Bondi

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Joyce Davidson

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Rosaleen Duffy

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Lynda Johnston

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Susan Lilley

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Shonagh McEwan

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Mona Marshy

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Niamh O'Connor

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Gillian Rose

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Bella Vivat

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Nichola Wood

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