Oakley, A;
(2016)
Interviewing Women Again: Power, Time and the Gift.
Sociology
, 50
(1)
pp. 195-213.
10.1177/0038038515580253.
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Abstract
The starting point for this article is a contribution to qualitative research methodology published in 1981 called ‘Interviewing women: A contradiction in terms?’ This was based on the experience of interviewing women in a longitudinal study of the transition to motherhood – the Becoming a Mother (BAM) study (1974–79) – and was subsequently much cited as helping to establish a new paradigm of feminist research. This article re-appraises the arguments put forward in ‘Interviewing women’, discusses its incorporation into a narrative about feminist methodology and presents and comments on new data collected in a follow-up to the BAM study conducted 37 years later. It argues that the complex political and social relationship between researcher and researched cannot easily be fitted into a paradigm of ‘feminist’ research, and that the concepts of a gift and of friendship as components in this relationship deserve more attention.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Interviewing Women Again: Power, Time and the Gift |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1177/0038038515580253 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038038515580253 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author(s) 2015. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article published in the February 2016 issue of Sociology; the final published version is available on the Sage journals website at http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0038038515580253 |
| Keywords: | feminism, interviewing, methodology, motherhood, social research |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Social Research Institute |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1492895 |
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