In deze bundel aandacht voor de problemen en dilemma's die onderzoekers tegenkomen bij het veldwerk. De nadruk ligt op onderzoek 'voor vrouwen, door vrouwen'. Bevat de volgende bijdragen: Situating feminist dilemma's in fieldwork / door Diane L. Wolf: Understanding the Gender System in Rural Turkey: fieldwork dilemmas of conformity and intervention / door Günseli Berik: Skinfolk, not kinfolk: comparative reflections on the identity of participant-observation in two field situations / door Brackette F. Williams: Writing ethnography: feminist critical practice / door Carol B. Stack: Relationality and ethnographic subjectivity: key informants and the construction of personhood in fieldwork / door Suad Joseph: Between bosses and workers: the dilemma of a keen observer and a vocal feminist / door Ping-Chun Hsiung: Feminist insider dilemmas: constructing ethnic identiy with chicana informants / door Patricia Zavella: Reflections on oral history: research in a Japanese American community / door Valerie Matsumoto: The expeditions of conjurers: ethnography, power and pretense / door Cindi Katz: Situating locations: the politics of self, identity and other in living and writing the text / door Jayati Lal: Afterword: musing from an old gray wolf / door Margery Wolf.