Abstract:
Mentioning the word ‘methodology’ in conversation often elicits passive disinterest at
the least, and vocal disdain at the most. For those practising development, the term can
conjure up images of flow charts, log frames and data sets, while for those in academia,
dry lectures on regression analysis may come to mind. Despite the consideration given
to the subject of methodology in various fields, however, very little has been written
linking feminist methodologies to development practice (one exception being Volume
15, Issue 2 of this journal, to which the author of this review contributed), and there is
an even greater gap in such literature published from the perspective of feminist
researchers working in the global South, although there is likely much work published
locally that has escaped the attention of Northern audiences. Sri Lankan academic and
self-described feminist researcher, Maithree Wickramasinghe, sets out to address these
gaps in her book, Feminist Methodology: Making Meanings of Meaning-making, published
by Routledge as the second book in its Research on Gender in Asia series.
