What can be known and how? Narrated subjects and the listening guide.

This article grapples with the question of `what can be known?' about research subjects and how we can come to know them. Set against a backdrop of theoretical tensions over the concept of subjectivity in feminist theory, our article makes a three-fold argument. First, we argue that theoretical impa...

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Publicado en:Qualitative Research Vol. 8; no. 3; pp. 399 - 410
Autores principales: Doucet A, Mauthner NS
Formato: Journal Article
Publicado: Sage Publications Inc. Jul2008
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