ABSTRACT
During 1995-96, I did a small-scale piece of ethnography in a Year 5 class of a London primary school (Edenfield School)2 to investigate the gendered cultures of the children and how questions around sexuality were involved in the ways gendered identities were put in place. The substantive findings of the project have been published elsewhere (Epstein, 1997; Epstein and Johnson, 1998, especially Chapters 5 and 6) so the purpose of this paper is to consider some of the methodological and ethical questions that arose during the course of the project (‘warts and all’ as Geoffrey Walford said when he invited me to write this chapter).
