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  • The Routledge International Handbook of Gender-Based Violence Research

    The Routledge International Handbook of Gender-Based Violence Research

    Borda-Niño-Wildman (2025) provides a comprehensive handbook to guide scholars, educators, and policymakers through GBV research. The volumne offers practical tools and critical reflections needed across every phase of study, from initial conceptualization and fieldwork through to final dissemination and real-world impact. Drawing on contributions from leading scholars and practitioners, the text examines how researchers formulate, design and carry out projects within shifting knowledge landscapes by focusing on the interconnected epistemological, methodological, and ethical dimensions of gender-based violence inquiry. Taking into consideration global fieldwork experiences, it highlights both the urgent questions investigators face nd the creative strategies they deploy across this complex field.

    The handbook covers a broad spectrum of conceptual, empirical and practical topics. These include applying intersectional lenses to neurodiversity and academic power dynamics, examining gender-based violence within conceptual debates about gender itself, and treating GBV as both an analytical framework and an observable reality. Contributors also evaluate the opprotunities and obstacles of conducting feminist research, the epistemological violence involved in studying abuse against transgender-identified individuals, and GBV within university setting swhere researchers frequently navigate the triple roles of researching, teaching, and providing pastoral support.

    Methodological discussions address feminist research ethics, research designs capable of examining silence, the dilemas of including perpetrators in studies, and the use of digital media to investigate violence across expanding online environments. Furthemore, the volume explores the capacity and limits of quantitative data to uncover historically overlooked forms of abuse, the implications of conductiong cross-national surveys linked to policy and advocacy, an dinnovative arst-based research methods. Finally, the collection addresses intersectional fieldworks, explores advocacy dilemmas within third-sector organizations, and shows how social theory serves as a transformative tool for analysis and practice.

    Learn more about this book here:

    Borda-Niño-Wildman, C. (2025). The Routledge International Handbook of Gender-Based Violence Research (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032632063

  • Intersectionality in Quantitative Psychological Research: I. Theoretical and Epistemological Issues

    Intersectionality in Quantitative Psychological Research: I. Theoretical and Epistemological Issues

    Can quantitative methods work with an intersectional framework? Else-Quest and Hyde (2016) show how combining quantitative research with intersectionality can expand research tools and deepen our understanding of psychology.

    While intersectionality has become a familiar buzzword in psychology and is widely known in feminist scholarship across the social sciences, its definitions often vary. Across these different definitions, Else-Quest and Hyde highlight three shared assumptions: first, all people belong to multiple social categories at the same time that are interconnected; second, each category carries an element of inequality or power; and third, these categories belong both to the individual and to the social context they live in, meaning categories and their meaning can shift and change.

    Treating intersectionality as an overall approach and a critical theory rather than a falsifiable theory, the authors evaluate its potential within quantitative research. To explore how well an intersectional approach fits with different research models, they discuss positivism, social constructionism, and standpoint epistemology, looking at what each means for research methods. Aiming to expand intersectional approaches within the psychology of women, Else-Quest and Hyde address both the challenges and the promises of bringing these perspectives together. Ultimately, the authors argue that researchers can successfully use quantitative methods within an intersectional approach, which will grow the field by giving intersectionality researchers more tools. At the same time, they urge quantitative researchers to adopt an intersectional approach, which will enrich and deepen how we understand psychological concepts and processes.

    Learn more about this article here:

    Else-Quest, N. M., & Hyde, J. S. (2016). Intersectionality in Quantitative Psychological Research: I. Theoretical and Epistemological Issues. Psychology of Women Quarterly, 40(2), 155–170. https://doi.org/10.1177/0361684316629797