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Maynes, MJ. and Pierce, Jennifer. "Making Positionality Visible in Feminist Research: Some Methodological Considerations for Personal Narrative Analysis" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Marriott Hotel, Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Philadelphia, PA, Aug 12, 2005 <Not Available>. 2009-05-25 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p21092_index.html>

Maynes, M. and Pierce, J. L. , 2005-08-12 "Making Positionality Visible in Feminist Research: Some Methodological Considerations for Personal Narrative Analysis" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association, Marriott Hotel, Loews Philadelphia Hotel, Philadelphia, PA Online <PDF>. 2009-05-25 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p21092_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Abstract: Feminist epistemological critiques of positivistic thought and its norm of objectivity have challenged the notion that social scientists are neutral and unobtrusive in their research. Rather than despairing the possibility of making any kind of �truth� claims, feminist scholars have sought to develop alternatives epistemologies emphasizing �situated knowledges,� arguing that knowledge is produced positionally, and hence, always partial. What this means for feminist scholars is that we not only have a responsibility to publish what we know, but how we think we know it, and where we are situated in the act of trying to understand. Despite this important theoretical intervention however, there has been less attention to the practical methodological considerations feminist scholars face in making the production of positional knowledge visible in their research. This paper reviews a number of studies analyzing personal narratives (such as life histories) to illustrate what kinds of practical steps can be taken to account for the conditions through which we produce personal narrative analyses. As we argue, attention to where we are situated in trying to understand personal narratives and how we come to understand them alerts readers to the �locatedness� and �partiality� of our interpretations and knowledge claims. By acknowledging the practical steps taken to account for the conditions through which personal narratives are produced, analysts can make stronger and more credible claims about their interpretative work.

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