Intersectional Feminist Research Methodologies: Applications in the Social Sciences and Humanities

Intersectional Feminist Research Methodologies: Applications in the Social Sciences and Humanities is a multi-disciplinary volume in which emerging and established scholars present new feminist research methods and re-evaluate existing approaches.

This collection examines how both new and established feminist methods address intersecting identities and structures of inequality including gender, race, sexuality, and class. Each chapter provides a case study of a methodology or methodologies that have been adopted, developed, or adapted within the author’s field - including sociology, criminology, political science, history, literature, and performance studies. The volume articulates the importance of knowledge production that arises from the situated and lived experiences of individuals, groups, and communities. It discusses how we survive as feminists in today’s neoliberal universities, and includes research on trans and nonbinary people, Indonesian history and the #MeToo movement, world-literature from the Philippines, memory work, and crime on the London transport network. The contributors engage with intersectionality in different ways but collectively they demonstrate the pervasiveness of intersectional thinking and practice in feminist scholarship today.

Intersectional Feminist Research Methodologies will be of value to both undergraduate and graduate students conducting research, as well as doctoral researchers and more established feminist researchers.

Jennifer Cooke is Reader in Contemporary Literature and Theory at Loughborough University, UK. Her most recent books include Contemporary Feminist Life-Writing: The New Audacity (Cambridge University Press, 2020) and the edited collection The New Feminist Literary Studies (CUP, 2020).

Line Nyhagen is Professor of Sociology at Loughborough University, UK, and Adjunct Professor at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway. She has authored the books Religion, Gender and Citizenship: Women of Faith, Gender Equality and Feminism (Palgrave, 2016) and Majority-Minority Relations in Contemporary Women’s Movements: Strategic Sisterhood (Palgrave, 2012).