This book explores the ways in which a diverse group of feminist and participatory action researchers experience, create meaning,and respond to the challenges of engaging in collaborative processes of reflection, action, and change. While headed in similar directions, rarely have feminist researchers and participatory action researchers acknowledged each other as collaborators with mutually important contributions to the journey. Through the work presented in this volume, the contributors hope to influence feminist scholarship to be more participatory and action-oriented, and participatory action research to be more grounded in feminist theories and values. This book has two distinct yet interrelated and intertwining aims. First, it creates a space for a diverse group of educators, researchers, and scholars to grapple with the multiple and complex issues that are threaded throughout feminist and action research. Second, it seeks to examine how action research and feminist research can complement each other in developing strategies for engaging in collaborative research that is rooted in activism and productive change.

MARY BRYDON-MILLER is Assistant Professor of Educational Foundations and Urban educational Leadership, College of Education, University of Cincinnati. PATRICIA MAGUIRE is a Professor of Education and Counseling and Chairperson of the Gallup Graduate Studies, Center, Western New Mexico University. ALICE MCINTYRE is Associate Professor and Director of the elementary Education Program at Hellenic College, Brookline, MA