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Book SynopsisA Critical Reflexive Approach to Sex Research is a methodologically focused book that offers rich insights into the, often secret, subjectivities of men who pay for sex in South Africa. The book centres on the interview context, outlining a critical reflexive approach to understanding how knowledge is co-produced by both the interviewer and the participant in research about sex.
By attending to the complex dynamics of the research interview, this book examines the historic and contemporary relationship between sex work, race, coloniality, sexuality, masculinity, femininity, whorephobia, and discourses of disease and contagion. It draws on both empirical interview data and Huysamen's entries in her research journal to offer a unique approach to building critical reflexivity into every phase of the research process. The critical reflexive approach uses an assemblage of poststructuralist and psychoanalytic theories and practices which together provide tools to interroga
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'Useful for anyone interested in sexuality and gender, the process of interviewing is assessed at the micro level which shines a light on complex personal dynamics. Using case studies to illuminate the nature of the interviewer-participant encounter, this reflective account provides an intimate exposé of an area of methodology which is rarely discussed. A must for anyone planning or doing sensitive interviewing'.
Teela Sanders, Professor of Criminology, University of Leicester, UK
Table of Contents1.Setting the Scene: Researching Men Who Pay for Sex in South Africa 2. An Assemblage of Theories, Methods, and Practice: Towards a Critical Reflexive Approach 3. Reasons for Arriving: Confessions, Excitement, and Intimacy 4. Defenses and Desires in the Research Encounter 5. Out of Africa": Critical Reflexivity as Decolonial Method? 6. Using the Critical Reflexive Approach in Your Research
