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Ackerly, Stern and True (2006) Feminist Methodologies for International Relations

 Ackerly, Brooke A., Stern, Maria, True, Jacqui (2006), Feminist Methodologies for International Relations (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).

Why is feminist research carried out in international relations (IR)? What are the methodologies and methods that have been developed in order to carry out this research? Feminist Methodologies for International Relations offers students and scholars of IR, feminism, and global politics practical insight into the innovative methodologies and methods that have been developed – or adapted from other disciplinary contexts – in order to do feminist research for IR. Both timely and timeless, this volume makes a diverse range of feminist methodological reflections wholly accessible. Each of the twelve contributors discusses aspects of the relationships between ontology, epistemology, methodology, and method, and how they inform and shape their research. This important and original contribution to the field will both guide and stimulate new thinking.

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Several of the contributors in the book discuss and challenge the hygienising role of methodology and method. They also offer helpful distinctions between method and methodology. The empirical material mobilised in many of the chapters is helpful for students who are trying to think of methodology in relation to both method and epistemology.

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