Mainstream feminist researchers argue that
1. objectivity has adverse effects on women
2. abandoning objectivity may eliminate constraints that dominate the essence of women
3. the design of feminist research must be based on objectivity
4. a and b are correct
The focus of research that binds together all branches of feminist research is their strong commitment to
1. changing the status of women in modern societies
2. studying women
3. employing female feminist researchers
4. all of the above
Feminists criticised positivist research for
1. having a gendered character
2. being based on a male paradigm
3. for placing women in a position of inferiority
4. all of the above
The concept ‘gynopia’ is used to describe the situation where
1. women cannot see faults of the system due to conditioning
2. women are invisible in society
3. the world is seen through the eyes of women
4. women are seen as being unable to see the world straight
All feminist researchers
1. employ an interpretivist perspective
2. employ qualitative research methods
3. reject objectivist principles of knowledge creation
4. are too diverse and pluralistic, hence none of the above is applicable
Which of the following is correct?
1. feminists employ traditional research methods
2. feminists employ quantitative and qualitative methods
3. feminists employ a post-positivist jargon of validity, reliability and credibility
4. feminists employ all of the above
In empiricist feminism, research
1. employs a realist ontology
2. follows primarily more rigorously the existing rules and principles of the sciences
3. criticises not so much the foundations of science but the way they are employed
4. entails all of the above
Which of the following statements is consistent with feminist research?
1. feminists do not employ quantitative research methods
2. standpoint feminists employ some but not all quantitative methods
3. some feminists employ quantitative methods
4. all feminists employ quantitative research
Which of the following statements is correct?
1. feminist empiricism does not employ quantitative research methods
2. feminist empiricism is critical of the nature of quantitative methods
3. feminist empiricists employ quantitative methods, modified to meet their standards
4. none of the above
Which of the following statements is correct?
1. feminist postmodernism is non-foundationalist in its commitments
2. feminist postmodernism is contextualist in its commitments
3. feminist postmodernism is multiplicist in its commitments
4. all of the above
The notion that truth is a ‘destructive illusion’ is associated with
1. phenomenology
2. hermeneutics
3. postmodern feminism
4. positivism