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Feminist Inquiry: Strategies for Effective Scholarship

WGS.615 · Women's and Gender Studies · Graduate · Fall 2012

Prof. Renee Bergland, Prof. Frinde Maher

MIT · Tier 1

<p>This course investigates theories and practices of feminist inquiry across a range of disciplines. Feminist research involves rethinking disciplinary assumptions and methodologies, developing new understandings of what counts as knowledge, seeking alternative ways of understanding the origins of problems/issues, formulating new ways of asking questions and redefining the relationship between subjects and objects of study.</p> <p>What makes research distinctively feminist lies in the complex …

Gender StudiesSociologySocial Sciences

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Prof. Renee Bergland, Prof. Frinde Maher. WGS.615 Feminist Inquiry: Strategies for Effective Scholarship. Fall 2012. Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare, https://ocw.mit.edu. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0.

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