Working in the Field as the Female Friend.

Christman, Jolley Bruce

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ERIC Number: EJ372888

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1988

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Working in the Field as the Female Friend.

Christman, Jolley Bruce

Anthropology and Education Quarterly, v19 n2 p70-85 Jun 1988

Describes a researcher's subjective experience of fieldwork conducted among other women graduate students. Focuses on interactions between the researcher and her informants, and discusses how these interactions affected the research, the findings, and the researcher. The emotional stresses and ethical dilemmas encountered by a feminist researcher are also explored. (Author/BJV)

Descriptors: Ethics, Ethnography, Experimenter Characteristics, Females, Feminism, Graduate Students, Graduate Study, Interpersonal Relationship, Research Methodology, Research Papers (Students), Research Problems, Researchers, Social Science Research

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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Note: Special issue on Women, Culture, and Education.