ABSTRACT
This Chapter describes the author's personal experience the meanings given to on-line mentoring relationships with mature women students. It examines the phenomenon of E-mentoring from an interpretative perspective in the way that Taylor and Bogdan describe as capturing the process of interpretation through which individuals define their worlds. The author's study about E-mentoring takes into account the significance of gender and as a feminist researcher she has concern for the ethical implications of research about women where the emphasis is on empowering them and transforming patriarchal social institutions through the research process. Her research is concerned with exploring E-mentoring when it is set against the traditional form of face-to-face mentoring. According to the researcher is involved in interpretation and that no feminist study can be politically neutral but argues that we need to take our own theory seriously and to use the theory to make sense of the experience.
