Sharlene Nagy Hesse-Biber is Professor of Sociology at Boston College. She is founder and director of The National Association for Women in Catholic Higher Education. She is coeditor of several books, including Feminist Perspectives on Social Research (Oxford University Press, 2004); Approaches to Qualitative Research (Oxford University Press, 2004); Women in Catholic Higher Education: Border Work, Living Experiences and Social Justice ( Lexington, 2003); and Feminist Approaches to Theory and Methodology (Oxford University Press, 1999). She is coauthor of The Practice of Qualitative Research ( Sage Publication, 2006); Emergent Methods in Social Research (Sage Publications , 2006); Working Women in America:Split Dreams ( Oxford University Press, 2005) . She is the author of Am I Thin Enough Yet? ( Oxford University Press, 1996) Her book, The Cult of Thinness, is forthcoming with the Oxford University Press. She has written numerous articles in the fields of body image, qualitative methods, and computer approaches to qualitative data analysis. She is co-developer of HyperRESEARCH, ([...] a computer software program for qualitative data analysis.

Acknowledgements
Introduction: Emergent Methods in Social Research Within and Across Disciplines
Skirting a Pleated Text: De-Disciplining an Academic Life - Laurel Richardson
Getting Connected: How Sociologists Can Access the High Tech Elite - Trond Aren Undheim
A Sociologist Among Economists: Some Thoughts on Methods, Positionality, and Subjectivity - Sarah Babb
Ethnography and Conversation Analysis: What Is the Context of an Utterance? - Douglas W. Maynard
Creativity Within Qualitative Research on Families: New Ideas for Old Methods - Sharon A. Deacon
Sampling Human Experience in Naturalistic Settings - Tamlin Conner and Eliza Bliss-Moreau
Feminist Visualization: Re-envisioning GIS as Method in Feminist Geographic Research - Mei-Po Kwan
Practical Strategies for Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Methods: Applications to Health Research - David Morgan
Performing Autoethnography: An Embodied Methodological Praxis - Tami Spry
Exposed Methodology: The Body as a Deconstructive Practice - Wanda S. Pillow
Ethnodrama: Performed Research-Limitations and Potential - Jim Mienczakowski
On the Listening Guide: A Voice-Centered Relational Method - Carol Gilligan, Renee Spencer, M. Katherine Weinberg and Tatiana Bertsch
Friendship as Method - Lisa Tillmann-Healy
Gender Imago - Niza Yanay and Nitza Berkovitch
The Personal is Political: Using Daily Diaries to Examine Everyday Prejudice-Related Experiences - Lauri L. Hyers, Janet K. Swim, Robyn K. Mallett
Feminist Media Ethnography in India: Exploring Power, Gender, and Culture in the Field - Radhika Parameswaran
Conclusion: "Coming at Things Differently": The Need for Emergent Methods
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