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Feminist scholarship reached the point where calls for a feminist methodology of its own sake are raised that differ eminently from “patriarchal research”. The need for developing a guideline of method, methodology and epistemology in feminist research process is a result of the concern that were articulated within the ‘feminist critique’ of existing methodology.
In the following paper I am going to outline in two chapters the meanings and implications of method and methodology for contemporary feminist researchers. Doing qualitative social research, what kind of critiques and which alternative research methods and approaches have been suggested by feminists who paying much attention to gender relations? Focusing on interviews, I am trying to to give answers to the following questions in the second chapter: What kind of discontents did feminists express and what kind of new strategies did they develop? How do feminist constitute relationships between researcher and researched? How do they perceive their interviewee’s verbal and nonverbal expressions?

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