Feminist Collaboration Relationships between Women across Political, Business and Intersubjective Worlds

submitted by

Margaret L. Page

For the degree of PhD

University of Bath

2001

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Contents

Acknowledgements   1
Summary 2
Chapter 1 Introduction: What brought me to this inquiry? 3
Note Inquiry as Life process: A note to my readers 8
Chapter 2 Feminist Action Inquiry: my methodological framework 9
Section 1 Inquiry as Life process: Grounding my inquiry 44
Chapter 3 My Inquiry Journey 1: Margins or mainstream? 46
Chapter 4 My Inquiry Journey 2: What kind of consultant am I? 55
Chapter 5 An inquiry Overview 68
Section 2 Preparing the Ground for Inquiry with Others 74
Chapter 6 Mapping the Territory of Workplace Dynamics Between Women 75
Red Thread 1 The Politics of my Inquiry 113
Chapter 7 In the Borderlands of Yearning and of Un / Belonging 117 140
Chapter 8 From Gender Difference to Gender Dialogue?
Section 3 Inquiry as Consultancy Practice 162
Chapter 9 Case Study 1 Negotiating Power and Voice: dilemmas for feminist inquiry 164
Red thread 2 When Feminist Collaboration Breaks Down 183
Chapter 10 Case Study 2 The Country of 'Effective Local Partnerships': Recognition Between Women 186
Red thread 3 Sustaining Feminist Collaboration 222
Chapter 11 Case Study 3 Doing Feminist Consultancy in Mainstream Organisations: an inquiry based change intervention 229
Red Thread 4 The Ethics of Breaking Silence 284
Chapter 12 On Thresholds and Borderlands 287
Chapter 13 Final reflections: the making of a feminist consultant 336
References 341
Appendix 1 Consultancy and Inquiry methods, chapters 4 and 11 355
Appendix 2 Questions for interview based discussions, chapter 6 358
Appendix 3 Analysis of individual interviews, chapter 6 361
Appendix 4 Analysis of Interview Findings 1, chapter 6 370

 

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