ABSTRACT

This 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.

chapter 1|11 pages

Editorial Introduction

Researching Differently

part I|30 pages

Feminist Theories

chapter 2|14 pages

Gender Research with ‘Waves'

On Repositioning a Neodisciplinary Apparatus

part II|45 pages

Methodologies

part III|46 pages

Research Methods

part IV|45 pages

Multi-, Inter-, Trans- and Postdisciplinarity

chapter 10|14 pages

This Discipline which is not one

Feminist Studies as a Postdiscipline

chapter 11|14 pages

Why Interdisciplinarity?

Interdisciplinarity and Women's/Gender Studies in Europe

chapter 12|15 pages

Transdisciplinary Gender Studies

Conceptual and Institutional Challenges

part V|49 pages

Professionalisation

chapter 13|15 pages

The Professionalisation of Feminist Researchers

The Nordic Case

chapter 14|15 pages

The Professionalisation of Feminist Researchers

The Spanish Case

part VI|27 pages

The Choice of Topic and Research Questions

chapter 16|12 pages

My Dissertation Photo Album

Snapshots from a Writing Tour

chapter 17|13 pages

Intimate Truths about Subjectivity and Sexuality

A Psychoanalytical and a Postcolonial Approach

part VII|14 pages

Coda

chapter VII 18|12 pages

If Writing Has to do with Desire, what ‘Kind' of Desire is that?

Between Jacques Lacan and Gilles Deleuze