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Dialogue Across the Divides: `Moments of Rapport' and Power in Feminist Research with Anti-Feminist Women

Donna Luff

The article describes the dilemmas raised in conducting a feminist research project with `anti-feminist' women. Drawing on a qualitative study of the perspectives of women in the British moral lobby, the author raises questions about the applicability of the existing feminist methodological literature to research with relatively powerful and potentially hostile women. In particular, a discussion of interview rapport in terms of `moments' of understanding and disjuncture, based on a recognition of the fractured and often contradictory subjectivities of researcher and researched, is presented as a contribution to debates about feminist standpoint research. Concerns about the desirability of research participants as active subjects at all stages of the research process and reflections on the fluctuating nature of power are also presented.

Key Words: feminist research • power • rapport • standpoint

Sociology, Vol. 33, No. 4, 687-703 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/S0038038599000437
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