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“Asking the Woman Question” in Case Study Research

“Asking the Woman Question” in Case Study Research
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Author(s): Nicoletta Policek (University of Cumbria, UK)
Copyright: 2019
Pages: 25
Source title: Case Study Methodology in Higher Education
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Annette Baron (William Paterson University, USA)and Kelly McNeal (School of Education, Georgian Court University, Lakewood, USA)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-9429-1.ch014

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Abstract

Case study research provides the researcher with the opportunity to decide the most convincing epistemological orientation. Such versatility is nonetheless embedded in the assumption of objectivity contends G. Griffin in Difference in View: Women and Modernism, which speaks of an “abstract masculinity” intended here as the assumption of universal humanity where men's and women's experiences are melted into one experience. Case study research, this contribution contends, even when about women, hinders the experience of women, an experience that is always situated, relational, and engaged. In other words, ontologically, it is argued here, the reality of women's lives is absent from the domain of case study research because the language adopted when framing case study research is still very much a language that talks about women, but it does not allow women to speak.

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