The ethical tightrope: politics of intimacy and consensual method in sexuality research.
Nurs Inq
; 22(2): 147-56, 2015 Jun.
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This paper seeks to analyze the construction of ethics in sexuality research in which qualitative methods are employed in the field of social sciences. Analyses are based on a bibliographic review of current discussions on research methods of queer theory and on the authors' own experiences of past research on sexuality. The article offers a theoretical perspective on the ways ethnography and in-depth interviews become methods that can rely on a consensual method and create a politics of intimacy between the researchers and research participants. The politics of intimacy may contribute to the production of a politically engaged knowledge while escaping from the moral matrix that usually governs the relationship between researchers and research participants. It is argued here that the researcher's sexed and gendered body matters for fieldwork; that the consensual method among participants may be employed in sexuality research as a fruitful tool; and that the relationships created among researchers and participants can pose a challenge to predetermined ethical guidelines in research. As a result, discussions problematize the existence of a politics of intimacy in sexuality research that is characterized by ethical relations among research participants.
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Coleções:
01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Sexualidade
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Relações Pesquisador-Sujeito
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Ética em Pesquisa
Tipo de estudo:
Prognostic_studies
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Qualitative_research
Aspecto:
Ethics
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Nurs Inq
Assunto da revista:
ENFERMAGEM
Ano de publicação:
2015
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Brasil
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Austrália