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Queer in the field : on emotions, temporality, and performativity in ethnography /Alison Rooke --Intimacy with strangers/intimacy with self : queer experiences of social research /Jamie Heckert --Brown, queer, and gendered : queering the Latina/o "street-scapes" in Los Angeles /Lorena Muñoz --The "outness" of queer : class and sexual intersections /Yvette Taylor --Queer methods and queer practices : re-examining the identities of older lesbian, gay, bisexual adults /Andrew King and Ann Cronin --Queer(ing) communication in research relationships : a conversation about subjectivities, methodologies, and ethics /Andrew Gorman-Murray, Lynda Johnston, and Gordon Waitt --The trouble with fieldwork : queering methodologies /Michael Connors Jackman --Queer conversations : old-time lesbians, transmen, and the politics of queer research /Catherine J. Nash --Femme on femme : reflections on collaborative methods and queer femme-inist ethnography /Ulrika Dahl --Queer(y)ing the ethics of research methods : toward a politics of intimacy in researcher/researched relations /Mathias Detamore --Method matters : ethnography and materiality /Mark Graham --Autoethnography is a queer method /Stacey Holman Jones and Tony E. Adams --Queer techne : two theses on methodology and queer studies /Tom Boellstorff --Queer quantification or queer(y)ing quantification : creating lesbian, gay, bisexual, or heterosexual citizens through governmental social research /Kath Browne.

Queering questions that which is normative. In this article, we discuss how, for the study of queer families, queering methodologies could reclaim traditional research methods that reflect historically dominant or privileged paradigms. We suggest that queer perspectives may be used to adapt mainstream (i.e., dominant, positivist, empirical) methods, creating possibilities for new, diverse understandings of queer families. We start with comments on the development and current standing of queer family research. We then reflect on several key conceptual and methodological tensions as they apply to queer family studies: lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer individuals ↔ queer families, between‐group ↔ within‐group, and quantitative ↔ qualitative. In conclusion, we discuss how these methodological considerations provide researchers opportunities to conduct research not only about but for queer families. Such research may reflect the diversity of queer families and challenge the normativities and systems of privilege that constrain them.

This paper focuses on the methodological challenges of 'embodying' qualitative research. While a substantial literature exists on theoretical aspects of the 'turn to bodies', there is little work which has grappled with its methodological implications. This article provides a brief overview and critique of approaches to embodied qualitative methodologies developed in the social sciences over the last decade. The paper also articulates theoretical-methodological strategies that could be useful in the effort to develop 'embodied methodologies'. The theoretical-methodological strategies outlined include: theorising the embodied subject, problematizing transcription and using poetic representational and methodological devices. These strategies are discussed in relation to a research project exploring women's narratives of childbirth and shows their use in tracing and representing the sensual body in qualitative analysis.

1. Queer in the field : on emotions, temporality and performativity in ethnography / Alison Rooke -- 2. Intimacy with strangers/intimacy with self : queer experiences of social research / Jamie Heckert -- 3. Brown, queer and gendered : queering the Latina/o 'street-scapes' in Los Angeles / Lorena Munoz -- 4. The 'outness' of queer : class and sexual intersections / Yvette Taylor -- 5. Queer methods and queer practices : re-examining the identities of older lesbian, gay, bisexual adults / Andrew King and Ann Cronin -- 6. Queer(ing) communication in research relationships : a conversation about subjectivities, methodologies and ethics / Andrew Gorman-Murray, Lynda Johnston and Gordon Waitt -- 7. The trouble with fieldwork : queering methodologies / Michael Connors Jackman -- 8. Queer conversations : old-time lesbians, transmen and the politics of queer research / Catherine J. Nash -- 9. Femme on femme : reflections on collaborative methods and queer femme-inist ethnography / Ulrika Dahl -- 10. Queer(y)ing the ethics of research methods : toward a politics of intimacy in researcher/researched relations / Mathias Detamore -- 11. Method matters : ethnography and materiality / Mark Graham -- 12. Autoethnography is a queer method stacey / Holman Jones and Tony E. Adams -- 13. Queer techne : two theses on methodology and queer studies / Tom Boellstorff -- 14. Queer Quantification or queer(y)ing Quantification : creating lesbian, gay, bisexual or heterosexual citizens through governmental social research / Kath Browne.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- Part I Critical Interjections -- 2 Materialism, Micropolitics and the Sexuality-Assemblages -- 3 Ordinary Sexuality -- 4 'Counting' for Equality: Youth, Class and Sexual Citizenship -- 5 The Normative Account: Sexual Experiences and Constructions of Masculinity Among Young Moroccan Men in Europe -- 6 Practice Theory and Interactionism: An Integrative Approach to the Sociology of Everyday Sexuality? -- Part II Critical Methodologies -- 7 Making Space at the (Queer) Academic Table? -- 8 Challenges in Reflexive Research into Loneliness and Isolation in Older Lesbians -- 9 Reading Texts and Their Silences: Sexuality and the Autobiographical Method -- 10 Intimate Partner Violence in Lesbian Relationships: An Interactional-Structural Analysis -- 11 "Inside/Out": Researching Young Adults' Sexuality in a(n) (Un)Familiar Space. A Reflexive Approach -- Part III Critical Practices -- 12 Uncomfortable Bargains?: Networking Between Local Authorities and LGBT Associations in the Context of Neoliberalism -- 13 Transgender Offenders Within the Prison Estate: A Comparative Analysis of Penal Policy -- 14 Conducting Sex Work Research in a Politically Contentious Climate: Lessons from Ireland -- 15 Medicalized Virilism Under Scrutiny: Expert Knowledge on Male Sexual Health in Italy -- 16 Challenging the Use of Heteronormative Categories in Childlessness Studies -- Index