Chilly Classrooms for Female Undergraduate Students: A Question of Method?

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the nature of campus climate research based upon studies found in a clearinghouse database of faculty campus climate studies and find that those conducting studies are most often institutional employees.

TL;DR: This paper examined whether contemporary college classrooms remain "chilly" for women and found that women in college classrooms experienced a "chill" climate for women in the 1970s and 1980s.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze sexism in daily life at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico as a phenomenon occurring in communication processes that are carried out in face to face interactions such as speech acts and performances.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used Judith Butler's (1990) work on performativity to frame how members of the campus community perceive transgender students are integrated into the college, and found that transgender students experience a certain degree of oppression in their lives, oppression that carries with it unique circumstances due to the location of this study.

TL;DR: Kitzinger and Barbour as discussed by the authors discussed the potential of "sensitive moments" in Focus Group Discussions and discussed the usefulness of focus groups for "sensitive" topics in social research.

TL;DR: The National College Women Sexual Victimization (NCVS) study as mentioned in this paper attempted to build on and surmount the limitations of existing research on the sexual victimization of college students and investigated how rape estimates that use the two-stage process of behaviorally specific questions and incident reports compared with estimates drawn from survey responses.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that focus groups are of particular value in conducting, and developing, feminist research, and demonstrate that the particular benefits of focus groups include: addressing feminist ethical concerns about power and the imposition of meaning; generating high quality, interactive data; and offering the possibility of theoretical advances regarding the co-construction of meaning between people.

TL;DR: A hermeneutic phenomenological study of infant colic is described as an example of qualitative research useful in gastroenterology nursing.