ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with an overview of the research context - the Women Organizing Activities for Women (WOAW) organization - and why, how, where, and with whom the author carved out this project. It then explains the data gathering methods, including the Research Team Meetings, one-on-one interviews, participant observations, and field-notes. The chapter provides a general overview and chronology of the data collection. A "deliberate relationship" is one that is entered consciously and ethically. Anonymity and confidentiality were discussed at the initial Research Team Meetings and in the interviews. Finally, the chapter concludes with an exploration of qualitative writing as a method of inquiry and the promises of collaborative writing projects for producing truly authentic texts. All too often the authors' writing suppresses individual voices and accepts the omniscient voice of science as if it were the authors' own.
