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Working in the Field as the Female Friend
Author(s) -
CHRISTMAN JOLLEY BRUCE
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1525/aeq.1988.19.2.05x1798d
Subject(s) - sociology , ethnography , feeling , field (mathematics) , qualitative research , research methodology , field research , gender studies , psychology , social psychology , social science , anthropology , population , demography , mathematics , pure mathematics
This article describes a researcher's subjective experience of fieldwork conducted among her own group: returning women graduate students. It builds upon the work of feminist ethnographers who have sought to connect their feelings about the research process to their research accounts. It focuses on interactions between the researcher and her informants and discusses how these interactions affected the course of the research, the study's findings, and the researcher. The article also explores the emotional stresses and ethical dilemmas encountered by a feminist researcher working within her own culture.