Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I Cross-cultural interviewing; 1 Interviewing as negotiation; 2 Interviewing across cultures: talking to mothers and daughters in Hong Kong and Britain; 3 Cross-cultural interviewing with/as minority women; 4 Rethinking the proximics of interviewing; PART II Interviewing in another culture: managing difference; 5 Living differences: experiences from Botswana; 6 Being an outsider: the vicissitudes of cross-cultural interviewing in a politically and culturally sensitive context
7 Dealing with being the outsider in qualitative interviewing: on interviewing representatives of British Muslim women's organisationsPART III Intra-cultural interviewing: dealing with hard-to-reach participants; 8 Interviewing outsiders as an in-/outsider: interviewing the socially marginalised from a marginalised position; 9 'So what do YOU want to talk about?': interactive interviewing in hard-to-reach communities; PART IV The vicissitudes of interviewing 'the same'; 10 Taboo in qualitative interviewing; 11 The migrant interview: the researcher as migrant studying sideways
12 'Don't focus the star try to catch the light': indirect questioning in interviews to explore normative assumptions in one's research focus; 13 Intergenerational interviewing: exploring the silences of female experiences; Index