Researching self-employed immigrant women in Hanover, Germany

• Autores: Heike Alberts
• Localización: Crossing borders and shifting boundaries / coord. por Mirjana Morokvasic, Umut Erel, Kyoko Shinozaki, Vol. 1, 2003 (Gender on the Move), ISBN 978-3-8100-3493-9, págs. 285-298
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In recent years feminism has changed the way we think about doing research and the questions we are asking. Based on the assumption that men’s experiences vary from women’s, early feminism, or feminist empiricism, first put women on the research agenda. As feminist thinking developed, researchers moved beyond comparing women and men to examine why women are often subordinated to and disadvantaged vis-a-vis men. At the same time as feminist researchers changed the focus of the research and the questions asked, they also criticized the claims that research is value-free and unbiased, and developed a distinctive and very influential body of literature laying out feminist research principles. While feminist researchers vary widely in their opinions about specific methodological questions, they agree that feminist research should not only be about women, but also by women and for women (Gilbert, 1994). This study about self-employed immigrant women1 in Hanover, Germany, is an example of feminist action research.