Giving Voice to Feminist Projects in MIS Research

International Journal of Technology and Human Interaction (IJTHI)

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 1-18

  Kvasny, Lynette ^a   Greenhill, Anita ^b   Trauth, Eileen M ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

critical research; feminism; feminist methods; gender; interpretivism; MIS; qualitative research

Indexed keywords

EID: 85001799519     PISSN: 15483908     EISSN: 15483916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jthi.2005010101     Document Type: Article

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