Interviewing Women: Researcher Sensitivity and the Male Interviewer

Treviño, A. Javier

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“…I had gathered data from a representative sample of women who surf; however, my findings did not fit with their favored neo-Marxist narrative of gender conflict and marketplace exploitation. Previous studies (Padfield & Procter, 1996;Treviño, 1992) reveal that when men interview women and vice versa (Jachyra et al, 2014;Lefkowich, 2019) they gain novel insights which supplement or contradict existing understandings. These new understandings are either embraced or dismissed depending on the readers' ideological outlook (Pilgrim, 2022).…”

Section: Case 1: Presupposed Misrepresentationmentioning

confidence: 98%

Talk-Story: Performing an Indigenous Research Methodology With Hesitant Non-Indigenous Participants to Learn Previously Silenced Knowledge

Cook

2023

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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This article aims to broaden joint performances of talk-story, a form of Indigenous Research Methodology, to give voice to non-indigenous participants who presuppose misrepresentation in qualitative research. Indigenous Research Methodologies emerged to challenge axiological concerns with Western Research Methodologies, which participants perceive to disregard, oppress, and exploit those they claim to represent. Founded on the principle of relational accountability, Indigenous Research Methodologies place learning co-created knowledges and social epistemologies at the center of the study, promoting the publication of authentic explanations and representations that empower participants. In response to grounded theories emerging from talk-story with non-indigenous members of the global surfing tribe, describing their anger and powerlessness against cultural studies researchers who deceive and misrepresent them in a perceived culture war, I explain how non-indigenous researchers and disempowered populations can jointly perform talk-story to co-create depictions that survive participant scrutiny. However, I caution that influential gatekeepers will execute Western a priori assertions and cultural imperialism to silence opposing voices and epistemologies empowered by talk-story. Nonetheless, my article aims to contribute towards promoting performances of talk-story methodology by explaining how an indigenous paradigm enables analytical processes to be shared, thus exposing insights participants perceive to be silenced by Western Research Methodologies.

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Section: Case 1: Presupposed Misrepresentationmentioning

confidence: 98%

Talk-Story: Performing an Indigenous Research Methodology With Hesitant Non-Indigenous Participants to Learn Previously Silenced Knowledge

Cook

2023

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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“…For instance, in Williams and Heikes's (1993, 288-9) sociological study of male nurses in California and Texas, participants were interviewed by both female and male researchers, and the authors remarked that despite subtle differences in interviewees' answers and despite the imperative to take into account "the gendered context of the interview," they found that "the gender of the interviewer is not an insurmountable barrier." Others have shown that a researcher may even enjoy advantages to interviewing members of the opposite gender (Brooks 1974;Treviño 1992). Aside from a rare exception (e.g., Treviño 1992), when it comes to men's research with and about women, one faces a methodological and ethnographic vacuum.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Others have shown that a researcher may even enjoy advantages to interviewing members of the opposite gender (Brooks 1974;Treviño 1992). Aside from a rare exception (e.g., Treviño 1992), when it comes to men's research with and about women, one faces a methodological and ethnographic vacuum. This vacuum was already pinpointed by McKeganey and Bloor (1991) in speaking of "the invisible man."…”

Section: Access and Experiencementioning

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Introduction to Special Section on Men Doing Anthropology of Women

Berliner

Falen

2008

Men and Masculinities

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We wish to thank all contributors to this volume for sharing their experiences, insights, advice, and critiques, for they have advanced and enriched this discussion in a way we could never have done on our own. We also appreciate the input of John Chernoff and Kevin Yelvington, who participated in the original conference panel and offered insight and encouragement for this project from the beginning. Finally we would like to acknowledge the guidance and support of the journal's editor Michael Kimmel, who worked tirelessly in shaping this special issue and helping us overcome our hesitations.

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“…Nor are they problematized in the research scene by informants and gatekeepers. A feminist perspective has inspired several analyses of the influence of the researcher's male gender in research (see for example, Hearn, 1998;McKeganey & Bloor, 1991;Schwalbe & Wolkomir, 2002;Treviño, 1992;Williams & Heikes, 1993). Of course, countless more researches by men have not been so reflexive.…”

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I'll Come Back and Stalk You

Presser

2006

Women & Criminal Justice

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In this article, I analyze conflicts between advocacy and research on offenders and specifically male offenders. The analysis is based on the contradictory investments I had as a female researcher and an advocate during Kevin's final months on death row until his execution. My activism on Kevin's behalf facilitated research access. The interviews provided Kevin with a rare forum for enacting a powerful masculine self, a demonstration that eventually positioned me as his victim. The assuredness of Kevin's execution allowed me to ignore his harassment and to continue data collection. As criminologists, we are likely to be consumers of state control. Criminologists, and specifically women, may also be objects of informants' control. Presented in their structural context, research interactions can illuminate both the far reach of state power and the gendered nature of criminology.

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Interviewing Women: Researcher Sensitivity and the Male Interviewer

Cited by 5 publications

References 24 publications

Talk-Story: Performing an Indigenous Research Methodology With Hesitant Non-Indigenous Participants to Learn Previously Silenced Knowledge

Talk-Story: Performing an Indigenous Research Methodology With Hesitant Non-Indigenous Participants to Learn Previously Silenced Knowledge

Introduction to Special Section on Men Doing Anthropology of Women

I'll Come Back and Stalk You

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