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Toward a Value-Laden Theory: Feminism and Social Science

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 March 2020

Susan E. Bernick
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Abstract

Marjorie Shostak's ethnography, Nisa: The Life and Words of a !Kung Woman, is analyzed as a case study of feminist social science. Three principles of feminist research are suggested as standards for evaluation. After discussion of the principles and analysis of the text, I raise a criticism of the principles as currently sketched. The entire project is framed by the question of how best to resolve conflict between researcher and participant accounts.

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Research Article
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Hypatia , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , Summer 1991 , pp. 118 - 136
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Copyright © 1991 by Hypatia, Inc.

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