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Book SynopsisThis volume centers on theories and methodologies for postgraduate feminist researchers engaged in interdisciplinary research. In the context of globalization, this book gives special attention to cutting-edge approaches at the borders between humanities and social sciences and specific discipline-transgressing fields, such as feminist technoscience studies.
Table of ContentsList of Figures. Series Editors’ Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgments. Editorial. Introduction: Researching Differently Rosemarie Buikema, Gabriele Griffin and Nina Lykke Section 1: Feminist Theories 1. Gender Research with ‘Waves’: On Re-Positioning a Neo-Disciplinary Apparatus Iris van der Tuin 2. Feminist Science and Technology Studies Maureen McNeil and Celia Roberts Section 2: Methodologies 3. Intersectionality – A Theoretical Adjustment Dorthe Staunæs and Dorte Marie Søndergaard 4. What to Make of Identity and Experience in Twenty-First Century Feminist Research Allaine Cerwonka 5. Histories and Memories in Feminist Research Andrea Pető and Berteke Waaldijk Section 3: Research Methods 6. Writing about Research Methods in the Arts and Humanities Gabriele Griffin 7. Feminist Perspectives on Close Reading Jasmina Lukić and Adelina Sánchez Espinosa 8. Visual Cultures: Feminist Perspectives Rosemarie Buikema and Marta Zarzycka Section 4: Multi-, Inter-, Trans- and Post-disciplinarity 9. This Discipline Which Is Not One: Feminist Studies as a Post-Discipline Nina Lykke 10. Why Interdisciplinarity? Interdisciplinarity and Women’s/Gender Studies in Europe Mia Liinason 11. Transdisciplinary Gender Studies: Conceptual and Institutional Challenges Antje Lann Hornscheidt and Susanne Baer Section 5: Professionalization 12. The Professionalization of Feminist Researchers: The Nordic Case Harriet Silius 13. The Professionalization of Feminist Researchers: The Spanish Case Isabel Carrera Suárez 14. The Professionalization of Feminist Researchers: The German Case Marianne Schmidbaur and Ulla Wischermann Section 6: The Choice of Topic and Research Questions – Some Examples 15. My Dissertation Photo Album: Snapshots from a Writing Tour Doro Wiese 16. Intimate Truths about Subjectivity and Sexuality: A Psychoanalytical and a Postcolonial Approach Henrietta L. Moore and Gloria D. Wekker Coda: The Desires of Writing 17. If Writing Has to Do with Desire, What ‘Kind’ of Desire is That? Between Jacques Lacan and Gilles Deleuze Edyta Just. Contributors. Index
