SAGE Journal Articles

Click on the following links. Please note these will open in a new window.

Kohler-Riessman, C. (1987). When gender is not enough: Women interviewing women. Gender and Society, 1, 172–207.

This article examines two contrasting interviews—with an Anglo and a Puerto Rican woman—and concludes that gender congruence does not help an Anglo interviewer make sense of the working-class, Hispanic woman's account of her marital separation. Both in form and content, her discourse contrasts sharply with an Anglo woman's account. The two women use different narrative genres or forms of telling to communicate their culturally distinctive experiences with marriage. In the case of the Puerto Rican woman, these differences result in major misunderstandings by the interviewer. Applying narrative methods to these interviews shows how closer attention to the voice of the subject can enrich qualitative research.

Hill, P., Lee, V., & Jennaway, M. (2010). Researching Reflexivity: Negotiating Identity and Ambiguity in a Cross-Cultural Research Project. Field Methods,22(4), 319–339.

This article examines a multidisciplinary, ethnically diverse team of researchers and their relationship with the research in which they were engaged: a study of overseas trained doctors (OTDs) recruited to work in health services in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities across four Australian states. The reflexive analysis presented in this article is based on interviews of 13 of the 15 researchers engaged in that project, examining the ways in which the researchers construct their own identities in relation to the research and the commonalities and differences evident within and between clusters of researchers based on their own social and cultural backgrounds and migration histories. The analysis also identifies ways in which discourses emerging from this analysis influence further engagement with the research process itself and the findings of that research by making explicit the assumptions underlying qualitative observations and insights.