“Gender troubled” – from the production and reproduction of masculinity to the forms of overcrossing gender: “Are his lies true?”. Preliminary remarks on the relations between the gender of the researcher and informant in the investigation of intimacy

• Authors: Banaszak, Ewa

Abstracts

EN

This article presents research focused on the experience of nudity/body as an intimate space of an individual. It also considers the influence of gender in situations such as an in-depth interview when a female researcher works with a male informant while bodily intimacy is in the center of exploration. In this paper the author makes an attempt to find answers to the following questions: How/if does the gender of researcher and informant influence the interview? Do males participating in research have any objections regarding intimate explorations in the presence of a female researcher? Do they lie during such conversation and do they lie less often when interviewed by the same sex researcher? Can a female conduct a reliable, focused on intimacy interview with a male? Presented research provides answers to these questions.

Keywords

EN

intimacy; gender; researcher – informant relation; interview

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Gdański
• Journal: Miscellanea Anthropologica et Sociologica
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 18(2)
• Pages: 184-204

Dates

published

2017-10-24

Contributors

author

Banaszak, Ewa