Feminist research principles
  1. that there is inequality in our society  constructed along gender 
    lines - women are subordinate to men in socioeconomic status and 
    decision making power. 
  2. that current modes of knowledge disadvantage women by 
    devaluing their ways of knowing
  3. that highlighting the experiences of women through research and 
    allowing their voices to be heard may go some way to making 
    inequalities more widely recognised
  4. that transformation of society through the empowerment and 
    emancipation of women are desirable outcomes.
     The researcher and the researched
  Relationship guidelines:
  non-exploitative relationships between you and those you are 
   researching
  exposure of your position, your personal biography, your emotions 
   and values and how these impact on data gathering, analytical and 
   interpretative phases
  the voices of the researched should be heard in their own words and 
   ownership of narratives should be shared between you and these 
   people in an egalitarian manner
            Empowerment of 
                participants
  Ways of managing empowerment:
  Recognise the value driven nature of research 
  Practice reflexivity
  Participants drive the research agenda
  Focus on improvement of participant’s lives as the major 
    outcome
  Include a diversity of participants including ‘elites’
  Use  language  which is meaningful to participants
  Contextualise data so readers can make their own judgments
  Present ways in which women may improve their situation.  
  (Adapted from Wadsworth 2001:4-5)
    Feminist data analysis
 Use  feminist theoretical frames
 Focus on an extensive display of participants’  voices
 Joint ownership of data interpretation
        Memory Work
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   The researcher is also a participant
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   Involves the tracing of memories and their construction 
   from each co-researcher’s perspective
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   The group  takes the collective memories and seeks to 
   understand how each memory as come to be 
   constructed in this particular way and how interaction 
   within the wider society has created and reinforced  
   oppression. 
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   Theoretical constructs are applied to the memories by  
   the researcher