Changing Methods : Feminists Transforming Practice

Changing Methods is a collection of original essays by feminist practitioners, scholars, and activists. The authors show why "the method question" has moved to the top of many feminist research and interpretive research strategies, and engage in thinking about how ideas and actions have developed within complex social circumstances.

The essays in this book challenge the tradition that has allowed abstracted, formalized versions of the ideas and experiences of privileged white men to set standards for how everyone should conduct themselves. The authors use new-found knowledge to displace the dominant ideology constructed around race, class, gender, and heterosexual privilege, and then propose innovative feminist-informed analyses of subjects as diverse as political change, critical linguistics, child care, religious studies, and violence against women.

Sandra Burt is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Waterloo. She has collaborated with Lorraine Code before (along with Lindsay Dorney) to edit Changing Patterns: Women in Canada (second edition, 1993). Lorraine Code is Professor of philosophy at York University. She has collaborated with Sandra Burt before (along with Lindsay Dorney) to edit Changing Patterns: Women in Canada.