Feminism Counts: Quantitative Methods and Researching Gender

This is an important and timely text that provides a unique overview of contemporary quantitative approaches to gender research. The contributors are internationally recognised researchers from the UK, North America and Sweden and occupy a range of disciplinary locations, including historical demography, sociology and policy studies. Their research includes explorations of heterosexual and same sex violence, media responses to feminist research, data sources for the study of equalities, approaches for analysing global and local demographic change and intersectional concerns in respect of work and employment. An introductory chapter illustrates the significance of geography and discipline in the take-up of methodological preferences. Through detailed sophisticated and thoughtful considerations of the place of quantification within gender studies and the place of feminist approaches to quantification, each contributor overturns the stereotype that quantitative research is antithetical to feminism to demonstrate its importance for challenging continuing global inequalities associated with gendered outcomes. The text will be essential reading for all research students in gender studies and will make an important contribution to the ways in which feminists respond to contemporary methodological and interdisciplinary challenges. This book was published as a special issue of the International Journal of Social Research Methodology.