How do issues of gender and sexuality influence the structures and processes of qualitative internet research?

Internet Inquiry: Conversations About Method

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 99-118

  Kendall, Lori ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

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EID: 84949993858     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4135/9781483329086.n10     Document Type: Chapter

References (10)

1. Fine, Gary Alan. 1993. "Ten Lies of Ethnography: Moral Dilemmas of Field Research," Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, 22(3), 267-294. doi:10.1177/089124193022003001 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/089124193022003001
2. Fine, a sociologist who has published many oft-cited ethnographies, outlines the virtues expected of ethnographers and the problems that arise when moral expectations meet the realities of fieldwork. His article illuminates ethical and methodological dilemmas, many of which defy simple solutions but instead require continual struggle and consideration. This essay is particularly useful for considering issues of power between researchers and participants.
3. Goode, Erich. 1999. "Sex with Informants as Deviant Behavior." Deviant Behavior,20, 301-324. doi:10.1080/016396299266416 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/016396299266416
4. This at times troubling essay goes against the dominant position among researchers that sex with informants should be avoided. Goode argues that this position may be true in some cases but not in all. The journal issue also includes two commentaries on Goode's article by Clifton Bryant and Columbus Hopper.
5. Kleinman, Sherryl and Martha A.Copp. 1993. Emotions and Fieldwork. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
6. Kleinman, "Field-Workers' Feelings: What We Feel, Who We Are, How We Analyze," in Experiencing Fieldwork: An Inside View of Qualitative Research, edited by W. Shaffer and R. Stebbins (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1991, pp. 184-195)
7. Kulick, Don and MargaretWillson, Eds. 1995. Taboo: Sex, Identity and Erotic Subjectivity in Anthropological Fieldwork. London: Routledge. doi:10.4324/9780203420379 http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203420379
8. This excellent volume includes many thoughtful essays regarding sex and eroticism in fieldwork. These anthropological tales mostly depict U.S. scholars in encounters with other cultures.
9. Newton, Esther. 1993. "My Best Informant's Dress." Cultural Anthropology, vol. 8 (February 1993): 1-23. Also available in Newton, Esther. 2000. Margaret Mead Made Me Gay. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
10. Newton's essay provides a good introduction to the issues discussed in this chapter, including an overview of some of the earlier anthropological writing on the subject of sex in the field.