Diversity and Agreement in Feminist Ethnography

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This article was prompted by Martyn Hammersley's (1992) paper `On Feminist Methodology'. I suggest that Hammersley's assessment of feminist writings on method is flawed, mainly because his conceptualisation of these writings is too narrow. He portrays a uniform feminist methodology, ignoring obvious differences as well those which are more subtle. In criticism of Hammersley's assessment, I take the case of feminist ethnographic writings and indicate the range of writing even in this particular area of feminist methodology. Discussion centres on issues raised by Hammersley both explicitly and implicitly in his paper, namely personal reflexivity, power and knowledge. In contrast to Hammersley, I indicate both diversity of topic and method as well as what is shared by feminist ethnographers.