Patti Lather

Fertile Obsession: Validity After Poststructuralism

[P]ost-modernism involves the development of new rhetorics of science, new stories of knowledge ‘after truth’‥. The postmodern world is without guarantees, without ‘method’‥. Al...

Critical frames in educational research: Feminist and post‐structural perspectives

(1992). Critical frames in educational research: Feminist and post‐structural perspectives. Theory Into Practice: Vol. 31, Qualitative Issues in Educational Research, pp. 87-99.

Issues of validity in openly ideological research: Between a rock and a soft place

This is Your Father’s Paradigm: Government Intrusion and the Case of Qualitative Research in Education

This talk was the Egon Guba Invited Lecture at the American Educational Research Association annual conference, April, 2003, Chicago. This article mobilizes three counterdiscour...

Postbook: Working the Ruins of Feminist Ethnography

Troubling the Angels

Educator Patti Lather and psychologist Chris Smithies observed and chronicled support groups for women diagnosed with HIV. Whether black, Latina, poor, or middle class, the wome...

Research as Praxis

The author, who is concerned with the methodological implications of critical theory, explores issues in the developing area of emancipatory research. She defines the concept of...