Mary Margaret Fonow

Beyond Methodology: Feminist Scholarship as Lived Research.

1. Back to the Future: A Look at the Second Wave of Feminist Epistemology and Methodology Mary Margaret Fonow and Judith A. Cook 2. The Man of Professional Wisdom Kathryn Pyne Addelson 3. Learning from the Outsider Within: The Sociological Significance of Black Feminist Thought Patricia Hill Collins 4. WomenOs Research or Feminist Research? The Debate Surrounding Feminist Science and Methodology Maria Mies 5. Quantitative and Qualitative Methods in the Social Sciences: Current Feminist Issues and Practical Strategies Toby Epstein Jayaratne and Abigail J. Stewart 6. Race and Class Bias in Qualitative Research on Women Lynn Weber Cannon, Elizabeth Higginbotham, and Marianne L.A. Leung 7. Researching the WomenOs Movement: We Make Our Own History, But Not Just As We Please Verta Taylor and Leila J. Rupp 8. Objectivity and Truth: Problems in Doing Feminist Research Joan Acker, Kate Barry, and Johanna Esseveld 9. Separate but Equivalent: Equal Pay for Work of Comparable Worth Ronnie Steinberg and Lois Haignere 10. The Different Worlds of Women and Men: Attitudes toward Pornography and Responses to Not a Love Story-A Film about Pornography Pauline B. Bart, Linda N. Freeman, and Peter Kimball 11. Household Resources and U.S. Womens Work: Factors Affecting Gainful Employment at the Turn of the Century Christine E. Bose 12. Women in Agriculture: Counting the Labor Force in Developing Countries Ruth Dixon-Mueller 13. Coauthorship, Gender, and Publication among Sociologists Kathryn B. Ward and Linda Grant 14. Feminist Research, Feminist Consciousness, the Experiences of Sexism Liz Stanley and Sue Wise 15. Sharing Feminist Research with Popular Audiences: The Book Tour Laurel Richardson Contributors Index

Union women : forging feminism in the United Steelworkers of America

Review(s) of: Union Women: Forging Feminism in the United Steelworkers of America by Mary Margaret Fonow, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2003. pp. x + 250. US

Analyzing Women’s Studies Dissertations: Methodologies, Epistemologies, and Field Formation

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An Australian Feminist TWist on Transnational Labor Activism

This study presents an in-depth analysis of women’s studies doctoral dissertations produced in the United States between 1995 and 2008. We identified 117 total dissertations and coded their topics, themes, and methodologies. We found eight dominant dissertation topics: identity/subjectivity, gender norms, resistance/activism/power, cultural texts, nationalism/citizenship, harassment/violence/victimization/trauma, race, and sexuality. While humanities-based methodologies, particularly historical and representational, dominate the sample, they are often combined with qualitative or ethnographic methods, particularly interviewing. Regardless of the methods employed or discussed, reflexivity, lived experience, and agency constituted the core of feminist methodology for many dissertation writers. We analyze the successes and challenges of producing interdisciplinary dissertations in freestanding women’s studies programs and provide an analysis of a select number of dissertations purposefully chosen to reflect larger trends. Challenges discussed include failure to specify (with precision) key terms such as intersectionality, interdisciplinarity, and transnationality; not providing a sufficient discussion of feminist methodology to justify the link between argumentation and evidence; not choosing topics outside of the writer’s comfort zone; and not problematizing the connection between experience, identity, and knowledge. We conclude with recommendations for improving dissertation advising and promoting innovation, which range from strengthening the fundamentals of research design and writing to clarifying the unique characteristics and appropriate assumptions of the field as a whole.

Using the Feldenkrais Method of Somatic Education to Enhance Mindfulness, Body Awareness, and Empathetic Leadership Perceptions among College Students.

households on paid domestic labor. The formulation of a stalled revolution locates the problem within the heterosexual family in which a man is present to shoulder his fair share of housework and care work. Given the variety of family arrangements, including female-headed households, and the commodification rather than socialization of the feminized work of cooking, cleaning, and caring, negotiating for just arrangements in housework cannot end at home. Housework needs to be situated within the gendered logic of capitalism that commercializes domestic work to compensate for women’s paid work outside the home. Likewise, labor movements have to meaningfully respond to the feminization of domestic work, the dependence of the formal workforce on an informalized group of workers, and the transformation of private households into sweatshops.

Feminist Methodology: New Applications in the Academy and Public Policy

We explored the potential of the Feldenkrais Method of somatic education as a tool for enhancing mindfulness, body awareness, and perceptions of transformational leadership capacities among college students. The intervention consisted of thirty-two, 1.25-hour long group sessions taught by a certified Feldenkrais instructor twice weekly to 21 undergraduates in the School of Film, Dance and Theatre of a southwestern state university. Students also were required to keep a journal in which they reflected on how they felt prior to and after each class, and then recorded three additional entries during the week with observations about their experiences with thinking, sensing, feeling, and moving. Repeated measures analysis of covariance (ANCOVA) was conducted to assess changes in levels of mindfulness, body awareness, and perceived leadership capacities using standardized scales administered at study baseline, midterm, and end of term. Over the semester, students evidenced significantly greater mindfulness, body awareness, and a domain of transformational leadership measuring empathy, controlling for their level of stress at the time of final exams. To meet the needs of today’s Journal of Leadership Education DOI: 1012806/V15/I3/R4 Volume 15 Issue 3 Research