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Feminist MethodologiesImmersion, Diversion, Subversion: Living a Feminist Methodology

Feminist Methodologies: Immersion, Diversion, Subversion: Living a Feminist Methodology [This chapter tells the story of my fifteen-month ethnographic study in Tamil Nadu, India. I begin by tracing my journey from the time I, as a physician, opted out of clinical medicine to work at the primary care level in rural India. I look at how in this process I gathered theory, methods, politics and found a way of being. The interpretive approach followed acknowledges how my background, positionality, and emotions were an integral part of producing ‘data’. I observed the village people’s everyday lives, as reflected, and refracted through a multi-layered class, caste and gender lenses even as I negotiated my everyday life in the village. Reflecting on the methodology I adopted, I conclude that methodologies need to be lived rather than applied.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Feminist MethodologiesImmersion, Diversion, Subversion: Living a Feminist Methodology

Part of the Gender, Development and Social Change Book Series
Editors: Harcourt, Wendy; van den Berg, Karijn; Dupuis, Constance; Gaybor, Jacqueline
Sathyamala, C.
Feminist Methodologies — Feb 3, 2022
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2022
ISBN
978-3-030-82653-6
Pages
163 –188
DOI
10.1007/978-3-030-82654-3_8
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Abstract

[This chapter tells the story of my fifteen-month ethnographic study in Tamil Nadu, India. I begin by tracing my journey from the time I, as a physician, opted out of clinical medicine to work at the primary care level in rural India. I look at how in this process I gathered theory, methods, politics and found a way of being. The interpretive approach followed acknowledges how my background, positionality, and emotions were an integral part of producing ‘data’. I observed the village people’s everyday lives, as reflected, and refracted through a multi-layered class, caste and gender lenses even as I negotiated my everyday life in the village. Reflecting on the methodology I adopted, I conclude that methodologies need to be lived rather than applied.]

Published: Feb 3, 2022

Keywords: Feminist methodology; Marxist-feminism; Intersectionality; Ethnography; Village study; Caste; Class; Gender; Tamil Nadu; India

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