New Release: “Methods in Gender Studies: A Textbook for Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Studies”

“This textbook provides students with everything they need to navigate the diverse range of methods in the interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary field of Gender Studies. In addition to offering a methodological overview, it guides students in developing research questions and selecting the appropriate tools for writing term papers and theses. The book’s contributions thus provide a practical, application-oriented introduction to methodology.

Gender Studies is characterized not only by its questioning of power and dominance structures, social inequalities, and normativities, but also explicitly sees itself as a self-reflective discipline. This requires adopting diverse scholarly approaches, perspectives, and standpoints. An important characteristic of gender studies is its inter- and transdisciplinarity: on the one hand, its critical perspective extends beyond disciplinary boundaries, and on the other hand, this critique connects various disciplinary fields of research. Due to this inter- and transdisciplinarity, it is difficult to speak of “methods of Gender Studies” in the singular. Rather, Gender Studies encompasses a diverse array of methods and methodologies from various disciplines and schools of thought. We view this methodological diversity as a strength of Gender Studies. The consensus underlying this diversity is that the research question guides the choice of methods. For students, this diversity of possible methodological approaches can be difficult to grasp, especially in the early stages of a Gender Studies program. This textbook supports Gender Studies students in finding their bearings and offers an introduction to the practical implementation of research projects. The individual chapters focus on the specifics of disciplinary and epistemological approaches, the development of a research question, and an exemplary implementation.”

The publishers:
Esto Mader, Post-Doc., Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin
Mirjam Firscher, visiting Professorship and Director of a Young Researchers Group, Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin
Lea Luttenberger, PhD candidate, Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies, Humboldt University of Berlin

Open Access Link: 

https://shop.budrich.de/produkt/methoden-in-den-gender-studies/ (in german)