TY  - JOUR
AB  - This article represents an attempt to uncover a suitable method of sociological enquiry, which can best understand and explore the experiences of the older, working class women of my research. Noting the historical, frustrating sense of absence of women in dominant knowledge claims (for example Beauvoir, 1997; Woolf, 1993; Rowbotham, 1973), the article seeks to complement post‐modern critiques of the autonomy of reason with feminist accounts of knowledge or “epistemologies”. The article documents the dislocation between my own epistemological assumptions and the women’s ways of knowing, and their attempts to defend themselves against my middle class interpretations of their working class lives. It offers a reflexive account of my own ethnographic research experiences, in order to help resolve some of the practical dilemmas faced by feminist researchers (Ribbens and Edwards, 1988). The article highlights some of the pains and pleasures of the feminist research experience.
VL  - 23
IS  - 1/2
SN  - 0144-333X
DO  - 10.1108/01443330310790471
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/01443330310790471
AU  - Casey Emma
PY  - 2003
Y1  - 2003/01/01
TI  - “How do you ge a PhD in that?!”: using feminist epistemologies to research the lives of working class women
T2  - International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy
PB  - MCB UP Ltd
SP  - 107
EP  - 123
Y2  - 2024/04/24
ER  -