| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 92 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Feminists really do count : the complexity of feminist methodologies / Christina Hughes and Rachel Lara Cohen -- Doing feminist-demography / Jill R. Williams -- Identifying dissonant and complementary data on women through the triangulation of historical sources / Lotta Vikström -- Quantitative methods and gender inequalities / Jacqueline Scott -- Measuring equalities : data and indicators in Britain / Sylvia Walby and Jo Armstrong -- Feminist epistemology and the politics of method : surveying same sex domestic violence / Marianne Hester, Catherine Donovan and Eldin Fahmy -- Counting woman abuse : a cautionary tale of two surveys / Diane Crocker |
| Summary |
This is an important and timely text that provides a unique overview of contemporary quantitative approaches to gender research. The contributors are internationally recognised researchers from the UK, USA and Sweden who occupy a range of disciplinary locations, including historical demography, sociology and policy studies. Their research includes explorations of heterosexual and same sex violence, media responses to feminist research, data sources for the study of equalities, approaches for analysing global and local demographic change and intersectional concerns in respect of work and employ |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Women's studies -- Methodology
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Women's studies -- Statistical methods
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Feminism -- Research -- Methodology
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Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology
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Social sciences -- Statistical methods.
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Feminist theory.
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Quantitative research.
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Feminism -- Research -- Methodology
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Feminist theory
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Quantitative research
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Social sciences -- Research -- Methodology
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Social sciences -- Statistical methods
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Women's studies -- Methodology
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Women's studies -- Statistical methods
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Feminism -- metodik.
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Feminism -- forskning -- metodik.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hughes, Christina, 1952- editor.
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Cohen, Rachel Lara, 1971- editor.
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| ISBN |
1317986229 |
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9781317986225 |
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9781315874944 |
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1315874946 |
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