ABSTRACT
This chapter provides an overview of the use of ethnography in research examining gender-based violence across criminology, sociology, social policy and health, as well as anthropology and associated disciplines. It deals with an introduction to ethnography as an umbrella methodology which incorporates a range of methods, and a contextual history of the emergence of ethnography as a methodology in gender and violence research. The chapter outlines the use of ethnography in feminist research, drawing on examples of how it has been used to research violence and abuse, before discussing the use of ethnography in feminist activism. Ethnography is a qualitative research methodology concerned with describing people, cultures and behaviours. Several female ethnographers have highlighted and reflected on the role of the embodied researcher in qualitative research. Autoethnography is seen as both a process and a product, and is an approach that utilises personal experiences to understand broader socio-cultural experiences.
