Inspiration

An illustrative list of references on feminist approaches to quantitative social science:

Bauer, G. R., Churchill, S. M., Mahendran, M., Walwyn, C., Lizotte, D., & Villa-Rueda, A. A. (2021). Intersectionality in quantitative research: A systematic review of its emergence and applications of theory and methods. SSM – Population Health, 14, 100798.

Cho, S., Crenshaw, K. W., & McCall, L. J. (2013). Toward a Field of Intersectionality Studies: Theory, Applications, and Praxis. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 38, 785 – 810.

Evans, C. R., Williams, D. R., Onnela, J.-P., & Subramanian, S. V. (2018). A multilevel approach to modeling health inequalities at the intersection of multiple social identities. Social science & medicine, 203, 64-73.

Hancock, A.-M. (2007). When Multiplication Doesn’t Equal Quick Addition: Examining Intersectionality as a Research Paradigm. Perspectives on Politics, 5(1), 63-79.

Harding, S. (1987). (ed.) Feminism and Methodology: Social Science Issues. Indiana University Press.

McCall, L. (2005). ‘The Complexity of Intersectionality’. Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 30 (3): 1771-1800.

Merlo, J. (2018). Multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (MAIHDA) within an intersectional framework. Social science & medicine, 203, 74-80.

Oakley, A, (1998) ‘Gender, Methodology and People’s Ways of Knowing: Some Problems with Feminism and the Paradigm Debate in Social Science’. Sociology32(4), 707 – 731.

Saperstein, A., & Westbrook, L. (2021). Categorical and gradational: alternative survey measures of sex and gender. European Journal of Politics and Gender, 4(1), 11-30.

Scott, J. (2010). ‘Quantitative methods and gender inequalities’. International Journal of Social Research Methodology 13 (3): 223–236.

Sigle-Rushton, W. (2014). ‘Essentially Quantified? Towards a More Feminist Modelling Strategy’ in Evans. M, Hemmings, C., Henry, M., Johnstone, H., Madhok, S., Plomien, S. and S. Wearing, eds. The SAGE Handbook of Feminist Theory. Sage Publications.

Sochas, L. (2021) Challenging categorical thinking: A mixed methods approach to explaining health inequalities. Social science & medicine, 283.

Spierings, N. (2012). The inclusion of quantitative techniques and diversity in the mainstream of feminist research. European Journal of Women’s Studies, 19(3), 331-347.

Stacey, S. and Thorne, B. (1985). ‘The missing feminist revolution in sociology’. Social Problems 32 (4): 301-316.

Williams, J. R. (2010) Doing feminist‐demography. International Journal of Social Research Methodology 13 (3): 197-210.