ABSTRACT
This chapter reflects on author's experiences as a feminist researcher interviewing male managers. It outlines the literature on women researchers interviewing men. The chapter begins the conversation describing the gendered context of the Farmers' Union. It introduces the 15 male elected members the author interviewed, before turning to explore their performance of masculinity in the interview process. The chapter details the men's display of heterosexuality, power and knowledge throughout the interviews. The details provide a preliminary picture of how managerial men in agriculture constitute their identities as 'masculine men', and give emphasis to the usefulness of examining gendered performances in the research process itself. The chapter examines why the male interview participants performed these versions of masculinity. The author argues that in order to examine the way in which gender may shape an interview, one needs to go beyond a simple focus on the gender of the researcher and the researched.
