ABSTRACT
Thus far we have discussed and presented feminist research methods in philosophical terms: we have considered it primarily as one among many different ways of knowing. Cook and Fonow describe in a lucid, well-organized manner the concrete elements, or "nuts and bolts," of feminist research methods. Many of the themes that were discussed in the Introduction and in the preceding paper by Westkott—the shift in focus to women, the importance of consciousness-raising and knowledge for women, and the transformational, or emancipatory, power of women studies—are concretely exemplified in this chapter. Although Cook and Fonow's thesis is based on work published primarily in sociological sources, it nevertheless captures the essence of feminist work in all social 70sciences. (They do not talk specifically about oral history, but it is treated in the following chapter.)
