"does this mean you're not going to come visit me anymore?": An inquiry into an ethics of reciprocity and positionality in feminist ethnographic research

Sociological Inquiry

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 372-396

  Huisman, Kimberly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

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EID: 47149090004     PISSN: 00380245     EISSN: 1475682X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-682X.2008.00244.x     Document Type: Article

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