A feminist approach to research

FEMINIST RESEARCH focuses on the experiences of women in natural social settings, where the aim is to ‘make women visible, raise their consciousness and empower them’ (Holloway and Wheeler 2013). Adopting a feminist approach influences what questions researchers ask and how they think about their data, but it does not usually influence how data is managed or analysed. This edition of Nurse Researcher includes two themed papers exploring issues around the collection and analysis of qualitative data in research projects that have adopted a feminist approach. The first paper considers methodological issues in a feminist-informed study and the second paper describes how taking account of feminist ideologies might enhance interpretive interactionism.