THE POLITICS OF LOCATION - DOING FEMINIST RESEARCH AT HOME

Feminist research methodologies have many advantages over more traditi onal positivist methodologies. Feminist research is differentiated fro m nonfeminist research in terms of its critiques of universality and o bjectivity and its emancipatory purpose. Drawing on my own research on the survival strategies of low-waged women workers in Worcester, Mass achusetts, I argue that we need to examine more critically our feminis t research methods in terms of the unequal power relationships on whic h the research process necessarily rests.