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Mar 2020
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Barbara Gurr and Maura Kelly on Feminist...

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In this episode, Barbara Gurr, Associate Professor in the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program at the University of Connecticut and Maura Kelly, Associate Professor of sociology at Portland State University, join us to discuss their co-edited book Feminist Research in Practice. Barbara and Maura discuss the qualities that make a methodology feminist, examine the relationship between a feminist approach and positivism, and help us understand why all researchers would benefit from considering some of the fundamental questions that feminist theory raises.

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