Talking back to sociology: Distinctive Contributions of Feminist Methodology

Annual Review of Sociology

Volumn 22, Issue , 1996, Pages 29-50

  DeVault, Marjorie L ^a  

^a SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Epistemology; Feminism; Gender; Methodology; Research

Indexed keywords

EID: 0003216240     PISSN: 03600572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.soc.22.1.29     Document Type: Article

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