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Qualitative Inquiry, Vol. 12, No. 1, 163-184 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/1077800405282792

"You Can't Cross a River Without Getting Wet"

A Feminist Standpoint on the Dilemmas of Cross-Cultural Research

Janet Hinson Shope

Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland

This article discusses the knotty methodological and epistemological issues raised while doing research in rural communities in South Africa. Using entries from the author's field journal and conversations with rural Black women, this article explores the tensions between theory and experience, insiders and outsiders, and writing and orality. Rather than reconciling these tensions, feminist method resides amid the contradictions, wedged in the methodological and epistemological between spaces that open up the possibility of multiple interpretations and dialogue.

Key Words: cross-cultural research • Africa • feminist epistemology


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