ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the topic of “feminist ethnography” and its possible contributions to developing critical insights into organizational theory. First, the chapter tackles the colonial genealogy of ethnography and the possible avenues for crafting an activist form of ethnography likely to foster emancipation rather than domination. Then, building on feminist standpoint epistemologies and on the author’s own ethnographic experience within a feminist collective, the chapter offers a definition of feminist ethnography. It shows that feminist ethnography asks the questions of “what can be known?” and “who can be a knowing subject?”, revealing how women’s experiences and voices have been silenced, even in critical or alternative research. As a methodology, feminist ethnography then enables a theorization “from the margins”, i.e. from marginalized standpoints.
