Feminism Counts

This book provides a unique overview of contemporary quantitative approaches to feminist research and feminist approaches to quantitative research.
This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of Social Research Methodology.

Christina Hughes is Chair of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Warwick, UK. She has longstanding interests in feminist research methodologies and feminist theory, and is founding co-chair of the Gender and Education Association. Rachel Lara Cohen is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey, UK. She uses a mixed methods approach to study work and employment and is interested in the use and teaching of research methods.

1. Feminists Really Do Count: The Complexity of Feminist Methodologies Christina Hughes and Rachel Cohen 2. Doing Feminist Demography Jill Williams 3. Identifying Dissonant and Complementary Data on Women through the Triangulation of Historical Sources Lotta Vikstrom 4. Quantitative Methods and Gender Inequalities Jacqueline Scott 5. Measuring Equalities: Data and Indicators in Britain Sylvia Walby and Jo Armstrong 6. Feminist Epistemology and the Politics of Method - Surveying Same Sex Domestic Violence Marianne Hester, Catherine Donovan and Eldin Fahmy 7. Counting Woman Abuse: A Cautionary Tale of Two Surveys Diane Croker